@article{Bojnec:90870,
      recid = {90870},
      author = {Bojnec, Stefan and Ferto, Imre},
      title = {COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES IN AGRO-FOOD TRADE OF HUNGARY,  CROATIA AND SLOVENIA WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION},
      address = {2007},
      number = {918-2016-72684},
      series = {IAMO Discussion Papaers},
      pages = {24},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {This paper investigates comparative trade advantages in  agro-food trade. We analyze comparative
advantages of  Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the  European Union (EU)
markets. Both the levels and pattern of  the revealed comparative advantage measure are  investigated.
The empirical research seeks to explain how  revealed comparative advantages have developed
across  countries, main product groups and over time and what are  likely their implications
for multifunctional rural  development in the enlarged EU. We employ a disaggregated  trade
dataset to identify the revealed comparative  advantages to provide broader policy implications.
The  empirical results confirmed bulk of agro-food and forestry  products with revealed comparative
advantages in the EU  markets for Hungary and to a lesser extent for Croatia, but  have
not identified any such aggregated agro-food product  group for Slovenia. Yet, also Hungary
and Croatia have  faced difficulties in comparative trade advantages in  consumer-ready foods
and processed intermediaries.  Agro-food sectors in Hungary are likely to continue to have  a
significant role in the Hungarian and to a lesser extent  in Croatian rural areas, but employment
and income  activities are more likely to be combined with other more  rapidly growing
service activities. In Slovenia,  traditional agro-food activities under increasing  competitive pressures
are more likely to shrink.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/90870},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.90870},
}