El comercio agroalimentario español en la segunda globalización, 1951-2011

Ernesto Clar, Raúl Serrano and Vicente Pinilla
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Ernesto Clar: Universidad de Zaragoza
Raúl Serrano: Universidad de Zaragoza

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2015, issue 65, 149-186

Abstract: This study analyses the evolution of the agri-food trade during the time of greatest transformation of the Spanish economy, namely the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first. This involves an examination of the evolution of Spanish agri-food exports and imports from 1951 to 2011, along with the corres­ponding trade balance. Similarly, it details changes in the composition of foreign purchases and sales for this type of products, as a reflection of the underlying economic changes. For exports, an econometric exercise is performed to evaluate their main defining factors in the Spanish case. The results indicate a greater diversification and transformation of the products traded. These changes are explained at the microeconomic level by the improvement of income and variations in preferences, and at a macroeconomic level by the powerful effect of the integration of Spain into the EEC in 1986 and the development of the agri-food industry due to an expanding domestic market (home market effect).

Keywords: agri-food trade; Spanish agriculture; Spanish economic history; second wave of globalisation; home market effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 N54 N74 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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