The influence of international trade on the growth of GDP has undergone some changes in time. The paper presents national trade between Poland and Russia with a special emphasis on the agro-food trade. The paper includes an estimation of the effects in Polish national income obtained through...

The Mediterranean has always been an area of strategic interest for the European Union (EU), since its establishment, has woven with his partners of the South and East of the Mediterranean a dense network of relationships, by signing agreements cooperation, first, and association, then. The...

Poland is conducting a vivid trade in agro-food products with Russia. The paper presents an analysis of exports of these products in 2004-2010. The basic material for analysis were data from the Central Statistical Office publications. Also, the scientific literature has proved to be helpful....

The article shows the role of promotion of agro-food products after Poland’s accession to the European Union. This factor as a source of competitiveness of food producers has not been enough appreciated in Poland yet and the advantages have been neglected. The on going increase of competition...

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At present there are 1425 tariff rate quotas (TRQs) notified by member countries to the World Trade Organization. TRQs were provided for in the Uruguay Round as a trade policy instrument to guarantee minimum market access for politically sensitive agricultural imports, and in some cases to...

This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...

The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...

This paper is Selected for presentation at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009. The research is partially funded by ERS/USDA China Project and Social Science Fund of Jiangsu Province in China. The authors are grateful for...