Agri-food exports and the enlarged european union

Alessandro Antimiani, Anna Carbone (), Valeria Costantini and Roberto Henke ()

No 134, Departmental Working Papers of Economics - University 'Roma Tre' from Department of Economics - University Roma Tre

Abstract: This paper explores agri-food export dynamics in New Member States (NMS) and Old Member States (OMS) of the European Union during the enlargement process. A quality-oriented survey is conducted by developing an original analytical framework which combines information from trade similarity analysis with elements from the sophistication literature. Country and sector specific features seem to emerge, revealing a more complex picture than that produced by aggregated trade analysis. While for some NMS agri-food exports, patterns converge towards OMS with regard to size, competitiveness and quality improvement process, for other NMS, a low-quality trap seems to prevail

Keywords: Agri-food sector; export dynamics; EU enlargement; quality upgrading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F15 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-eur and nep-int
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