 Determinants of competition in agro-food trade between Central European Countries and the European UnionŠtefan Bojnec (stefan.bojnec@fm-kp.si) and Imre Fertő No 7779, 104th Seminar, September 5-8, 2007, Budapest, Hungary from European Association of Agricultural Economists Abstract: This paper investigates determinants of competition in agro-food trade between five transition Central European Countries (CEC-5) (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) and the European Union (EU-15) countries during the preenlargement years 1995-2003. We distinguish between one-way exports and imports, and two-way successful and unsuccessful price and quality competition in agro-food trade between the CEC-5 and the EU-15. The effect of trade balance on trade competition is found more significant than the effect of export-import unit values difference. Natural and human factor endowments increase price competition and reduce unsuccessful quality competition. Higher level of economic development reduces quality competition, whereas the size of the economy reduces price competition and increases quality competition. Agricultural labor productivity improves price and quality competition. Less quality differentiated products increase price competition. Research and development (R&D) expenditures improve quality competition. Keywords: International; Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:eaa104:7779 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 104th Seminar, September 5-8, 2007, Budapest, Hungary from European Association of Agricultural Economists Contact information at EDIRC. |
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