Abstract:The article analyses country-and industry-specifi c determinants of horizontal and vertical intra-industry trade (IIT) in agri-food products between the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic) and the European Union in the period 1999-2013. The results show that IIT is mainly of a vertical nature in the Visegrad countries, though the majority of their exports consist of low quality/value-added agri-food products to European markets. The results obtained by generalised method of… Show more
“…In relation to studies conducted by Rudolf Loertscher and Frank Wolter [1980], Attila Jámbor [2015] and Justyna Łapińska [2016, the low intensity of intra-industry trade in agri-food products of the EU, including Poland, with the US may be explained e.g. by the considerable geographical distance and different absolute sizes of markets in the case of these trade partners, as well as the discrepancy in economic development of the analysed countries.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…The latter aspect has been investigated e.g. by Steve McCorriston andIan Sheldon [1991], Renato Pieri et al [1997], Štefan Bojnec [2001], Bashir Qasmi and Scott Fausti [2001], Jing Wang [2009], Attila Jámbor [2015] and Viet Hoang [2019].…”
The aim of this paper was to investigate the intensity and determine the type of intra-industry trade in agri-food products of Poland and the EU with the US. Analysis was based on data coming from the Comext-Eurostat database applying the 6-digit HS classification in 2007 and 2018. The intensity of intra-industry trade was established using the Grubel-Lloyd index, taking the diversification of intra-industry trade into horizontal, high-quality vertical, and low-quality vertical trade into consideration. The individual types were determined applying the criteria of similarity in unit values in exports and imports, proposed by David Greenaway et al. [1994]. Analysis showed that trade in agri-food products of Poland and the EU with the US developed mainly following a model of inter-industry specialisation. Intra-industry trade was observed primarily in trade in highly processed products. Analyses of EU trade with the US indicate the greatest role of intra-industry trade in high quality differentiated products, which may hardly be supplemented by other goods, while in Polish trade with the US it was vertical trade in low quality goods, which may be relatively readily replaced by products coming from other countries, in turn potentially leading to the loss of Poland’s share in the target market.
“…In relation to studies conducted by Rudolf Loertscher and Frank Wolter [1980], Attila Jámbor [2015] and Justyna Łapińska [2016, the low intensity of intra-industry trade in agri-food products of the EU, including Poland, with the US may be explained e.g. by the considerable geographical distance and different absolute sizes of markets in the case of these trade partners, as well as the discrepancy in economic development of the analysed countries.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…The latter aspect has been investigated e.g. by Steve McCorriston andIan Sheldon [1991], Renato Pieri et al [1997], Štefan Bojnec [2001], Bashir Qasmi and Scott Fausti [2001], Jing Wang [2009], Attila Jámbor [2015] and Viet Hoang [2019].…”
The aim of this paper was to investigate the intensity and determine the type of intra-industry trade in agri-food products of Poland and the EU with the US. Analysis was based on data coming from the Comext-Eurostat database applying the 6-digit HS classification in 2007 and 2018. The intensity of intra-industry trade was established using the Grubel-Lloyd index, taking the diversification of intra-industry trade into horizontal, high-quality vertical, and low-quality vertical trade into consideration. The individual types were determined applying the criteria of similarity in unit values in exports and imports, proposed by David Greenaway et al. [1994]. Analysis showed that trade in agri-food products of Poland and the EU with the US developed mainly following a model of inter-industry specialisation. Intra-industry trade was observed primarily in trade in highly processed products. Analyses of EU trade with the US indicate the greatest role of intra-industry trade in high quality differentiated products, which may hardly be supplemented by other goods, while in Polish trade with the US it was vertical trade in low quality goods, which may be relatively readily replaced by products coming from other countries, in turn potentially leading to the loss of Poland’s share in the target market.
“…Wśród tych ostatnich można wymienić m.in. prace McCorriston i Sheldon (1991), Christodoulou (1992), Pieri, Rama i Venturini (1997), Bojnec (2001), Qasmi i Fausti (2001), Bojnec i Fertő (2008), Leitão i Faustino (2008), Wang (2009), Rasekhi i Shojaee (2012), Varma (2012), Jámbor (2015), Jámbor, Balogh i Kucsera (2016), Cimpoies i Coser (2017) oraz Hoang (2019).…”
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“…znaczną odległością i różną bezwzględną wielkością rynków partnerów handlowych oraz zróżnicowaniem poziomu rozwoju gospodarczego analizowanych państw. Jest to zgodne z wynikami wcześniejszych badań Loertschera i Woltera (1980), Jámbor (2015) oraz Łapińskiej (2016), podejmowanych odpowiednio w odniesieniu do krajów OECD, państw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej i Polski. Nawiązując do analiz Bojnec i Fertő (2016), można również sądzić, że zwiększeniu stopnia specjalizacji wewnątrzgałęziowej sprzyjałaby przynależność badanych krajów do tej samej strefy preferencyjnego handlu.…”
The aim of the paper was to examine the intensity and to determine the type of intra-industry trade in agri-food products between the EU and US. The analysis was based on data from the Comext-Eurostat database and it was carried out at the 6-digit level of HS classification in 2007-2018. Based on the conducted research, it can be concluded that trade in agri-food products between the EU and US is developing mainly in accordance with the model of inter-industry specialisation, which in the years 2007-2018 was strengthening and deepening. Intra-industry trade, vertical rather than horizontal, was primarily observed in the exchange of products with a higher degree of processing.
“…These theoretical assumptions have been confirmed by available research. In a paper that analyzes the determinants of horizontal and vertical IIT in trade between countries of the Visegrad Group, Jámbor (2015) points out that agricultural products are dominated by vertical IIT, i.e. that products of different quality are being exchanged.…”
Intra-industrial trade is the exchange of products between countries in the same sector of the economy. A significant part of export and import in goods takes place within the same sector of the economy. This paper analyzes the intra-industrial trade in agricultural products of Serbia and its foreign trade partners from 2004 to 2018. The Grubel-Lloyd intra-industrial trade index was used as a measure. The value of GLI in agricultural products increased over the observed period, ranging from 0.485 to 0.590 as in 2018, while the number of IIT-dominated groups ranged from 26 to 35. The results obtained indicate that vertical IIT is more prevalent than horizontal IIT and that the export of products with lower prices dominates, i. e. those that are, according to the assumptions of the model, of lower quality than the imported products. Dynamic change analysis shows that certain changes in the IIT pattern occur over time, but that changes are gradual without sudden peaks in the IIT structure.
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