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An Assessment of the Slovak Agri-food Trade Specialisation Pattern

In: Ekonomický časopis/Journal of Economics, vol. 57, no. 1
Dušan Drabik - Ľubica Bartová

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Year, pages: 2009, 1 - 20
Keywords:
agri-food trade; specialisation; Lafay index; Markov matrices JEL Classification: F15, F14, Q17
Article type: Vedecký / Article
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The paper analyses the agri-food trade specialisation pattern in Slovakia prior to and after its accession to the European Union in the period 2000 – 2005. The most competitive Slovak agri-food commodities in trade with the examined trade groupings were consumer-oriented products. Degree of agri-food trade speciali-sation dropped over the period for all most important markets. At the same time, Slovakia did not maintain positions of the most competitive commodities; however, it improved positions of a number of previously uncompetitive ones. After 2004, the dynamics of previously rigid trade specialisation with the EU-15 and the New Member States of the 2004 EU enlargement accelerated. This is likely to lead to convergence of Slovak trade specialisation dynamics across trade partners/groupings.
The paper analyses the agri-food trade specialisation pattern in Slovakia prior to and after its accession to the European Union in the period 2000 – 2005. The most competitive Slovak agri-food commodities in trade with the examined trade groupings were consumer-oriented products. Degree of agri-food trade speciali-sation dropped over the period for all most important markets. At the same time, Slovakia did not maintain positions of the most competitive commodities; however, it improved positions of a number of previously uncompetitive ones. After 2004, the dynamics of previously rigid trade specialisation with the EU-15 and the New Member States of the 2004 EU enlargement accelerated. This is likely to lead to convergence of Slovak trade specialisation dynamics across trade partners/groupings.
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Drabik, D., Bartová, . 2009. An Assessment of the Slovak Agri-food Trade Specialisation Pattern. In Ekonomický časopis/Journal of Economics, vol. 57, no.1, pp. 1-20. 0013-3035.

APA:
Drabik, D., Bartová, . (2009). An Assessment of the Slovak Agri-food Trade Specialisation Pattern. Ekonomický časopis/Journal of Economics, 57(1), 1-20. 0013-3035.