We investigate oligopolistic competition between U.S. and Chinese apple exporters in the ASEAN market using strategic trade theory and the NEIO literature. We also analyze competition in the U.S. and Chinese domestic markets. U.S. supplies higher quality apples to ASEAN than China, resulting in...

International trade between countries can be categorised as inter-industry or intra-industry. Intra-industry trade, particularly of vertically differentiated products, has expanded significantly since the 1960s, especially in Europe. However, Fontagné et al. (2006) note that inter-industry...

This paper presents the theoretical and empirical structure of WOOLMOD – a model of the world wool market which treats raw wool and wool products as heterogeneous commodities. The model divides the world wool market into ten geographical regions and production in each region amongst eight...

The mutual interest of industry and government to improve the competitiveness of agri-food industries presents an information management challenge for leaders and policy makers. The paper examines the case for a template for benchmarking economic, environmental and social indicators along...

A 2004. május 1-jei EU-belépést megelőzően számos tanulmány, cikk, ismertető füzet készült és elemezte a csatlakozás várható agrárgazdasági hatásait. A belépést követően már kevesebb, de jó néhány tartalmas tanulmány tekintett vissza az elmúlt időszakra és adott...

A tanulmány az ágazaton belüli agrárkereskedelem országspecifikus meghatározó tényezőit elemzi Bulgária és Románia Európai Unióval folytatott kereskedelmében. Mivel az elméleti téma mezőgazdasági vonatkozásai korlátozottak, a cikk friss adatokkal és a horizontális és...

This paper investigates the determinants of home bias in consumption in the beer and wine markets across 15 ‘old’ member states of the European Union (EU) during the period 2000-2009. Two main results are obtained using a theory-driven gravity equation. Firstly, the home bias in beer...

This paper builds on the work of BUSCHENA and GRAY (1999) to look at the effects of mergers in the North American malting industry as ten firms in two separated markets merged into four firms in an integrated market. We explore the sensitivity of our results to the assumption of market power. We...