Hungarian and Slovenian Agro-Food Trade with Three Main European Union Partners
Hungarian and Slovenian Agro-Food Trade with Three Main European Union Partners

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates revealed comparative advantages and competitiveness of Hungarian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the three main European Union markets between 1993 and 2003. The Balassa index indicates that both countries have lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over time. Results show that in Hungarian two-way agro-food trade the prevalence is on successful price competition and on successful quality competition. In Slovenian two-way agro-food trade the prevalence is on unsuccessful price competition and unsuccessful quality competition. The tests for consistency associations be-tween revealed comparative advantages and competitiveness measures confirm similarities and differences in the results

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