Statistical data display a high level of sectorial and geographical concentration in the exports of three Central European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge quantities of the products of certain sectors of engineering...

The article uses continuous wavelet analysis for the study of certain export-import time series. It is a novel methodology, with the promise, inter alia, to detect features of processes that may remain hidden for traditional methodologies. The application of wavelets has been rapidly increasing...

Hungarian Abstract: A humanitárius problémaként induló menekültválság mára Európa-szerte biztonságpolitikai kérdéssé alakult. A migrációs válságot egy sor populista politikai hang nemcsak az egyes országok létét fenyegető, de az egész kontinenst és az Európai Unió...

Arabic Abstract: تهتم الورقة بتحليل بعض المؤشرات الاقتصادية الكلية الهامة التي تمثل دعامة الاقتصاد في كل الدول ومن بينها السودان وتتأثر بها بشكل رئيسي. يتم التحليل من...

Global Value Chains play an increasing role in production and export in modern economies. Being part of such global chains can fundamentally affect the performance of a firm, a country, or an industry. In this study, we analyze the production and export of intermediate products and capital goods...

Product- and partner-level disaggregated trade data linked with firm-level data make possible the understanding of the structure of foreign trade. This study analyses the trade duration of firms, its relation to the products and partners and the foreign trade margins defined in different ways....

Az UNIDO nemzetközi fejlesztési szervezet szerint az eladó-vevõi kapcsolatok jellemzõen két okból bomlanak fel: 1) az eladó (termelõ) nem kellõen informált a vásárló igényeirõl, 2) az eladó (termelõ) nem képes teljesíteni ezeket az igényeket. Ennek az elvnek megfelelõen a...

This paper presents the specificities of Hungarian foreign trading firms from different perspectives, like concentration, efficiency and sectoral structure. Hungarian trade is highly concentrated similarly to other countries. Trading firms are more efficient than their non-trading peers,...

Concentration is a general tendency, which led to strengthening the position of commerce all over the world. One of the consequences are the intensified conflicts between the large- and small-scale production deriving from the differences in volume, selection, quality and price as well as in...