The competitiveness and comparative advantage of the Slovak and the EU agri-food trade with Russia and Ukraine

Artan Qineti, Miroslava Rajcaniova and E. Matejkova
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E. Matejkova: Department of Statistics and Operation Research, Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovak Republic

Agricultural Economics, 2009, vol. 55, issue 8, 375-383

Abstract: The paper investigates comparative advantages and competitiveness of Slovak and the EU 27 agri-food trade in markets of two countries: Russia and Ukraine. Our aim is to see the dynamics of the agri-food trade for the analyzed countries especially in the post-accession period. Applying a trade dataset from the EUROSTAT and based on the approach applied by Bojnec and Fertő (2006), we describe the pattern of agri-food trade in Slovakia and the EU using the Balassa index. The extent of trade specialization exhibits a declining trend in the country. It has lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over time. The indices of specialization have tended to converge. For the particular product groups, the indices display a greater variation. They are stable for the product groups with comparative disadvantage, but the product groups with strong comparative advantage show a significant variation. There are also shown different tendencies for different markets i.e. the trade patterns between the Slovak Republic and the EU 27 with Russia and Ukraine.

Keywords: comparative advantage; agri-food trade; EU 27; Slovak Republic; Russia; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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