Competitiveness in the Food Industry: a CGE Modelling Approach to assess Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Countries

Martin Banse (), Stephan Hubertus Gay, Scott McDonald (), Robert M'Barek and Johan Swinnen
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Robert Mbarek

No 8525, 104th Seminar, September 5-8, 2007, Budapest, Hungary from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output and employment shares. As a competitive sector that receives substantial foreign direct investments (FDI), it plays an important role as an element in the process of integration in the European and world market. The GLOBE Computable General Equilibrium model is applied to analyse scenarios of alternative development pathways of the food industry sector, taking into account the impact of FDI in the European food industry. The scenario analyses of this study identify that with an enhanced attraction of FDI in the food processing industries in the New Member States (NMS) the integration of the agri-food sectors in the NMS into the Single European Market will become even stronger.

Keywords: Agribusiness; International Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.8525

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