On the empirical distribution of the Balassa index

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van

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“…The first empirical test of the Hillman condition was executed by Marchese and de Simone (1989) by analysing exports of 118 developing countries at a different level of aggregation. They found that the Hillman condition does not hold for about 9.5% of the value of exports in their sample, while Hinloopen and Van Marrewijk (2001) proved that the Hillman condition does not hold for about half percent of the number of observations, which corresponds to about seven percent of the value of exports. According to the latest empirical tests, based on approximately 18 million observations coming from 183 countries and 28 years, violations of the Hillman condition are small as a share of the number of observations, but they often represent a disproportionally large value of trade (Hinloopen and van Marrewijk 2008).…”

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Agri-food trade of the new member states since the EU accession

Török¹,

Jámbor²

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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In 2004 and 2007, twelve New Member States (NMS) joined the European Union (EU), causing several changes in the field of agriculture. One of the major changes was the transformation of the national agri-food trade. The aim of the paper is to analyse the effects of the EU accession on the NMS agri-food trade, especially considering the revealed comparative advantages. The results suggest that the intensity of the NMS agri-food trade has increased significantly after the accession, though there was a serious deterioration in the NMS agri-food trade balance in most cases. It has also become evident that the NMS agri-food trade was highly concentrated by country and by product, though the concentration has not changed significantly after the EU accession. Moreover, our analyses highlight one of the most important characteristics of the NMS agri-food trade structure – the focus on the agri-food raw materials in export together with the agri-food processed products in import. As to the NMS agri-food trade specialisation, the diversity among member states becomes apparent. Almost all countries experienced a decrease in their comparative advantage after the accession, though it still remained at an acceptable level in most cases. As for the stability of the comparative advantage, the results suggest a weakening trend, underpinned by the convergence of the pattern of revealed comparative advantage. By estimating the survival function to the sample, it can be observed that the accession has radically changed the survival time of agri-food trade, meaning that the revealed comparative advantage has not turned out to be persistent in the period analysed. From the policy perspective, there is a clear need for structural changes in the NMS agriculture and agri-food sector in order to tackle the negative tendencies of the national agri-food trade. The most important long-term goal should be the production and export of higher value-added processed products based on domestic raw materials.  

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Agri-food trade of the new member states since the EU accession

Török¹,

Jámbor²

2013

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…The results of the stability test as suggested by [13] are presented in Table 4 According to [15], changes in the distribution of the Balassa index provide information on the trend in a country's comparative advantage over time. The distribution of the Balassa index over the period [2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011] shows that Ghana's revealed comparative advantage in agro-processing products somewhat weakened over the period 2004 to 2011 ( Table 5).…”

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Investigating Ghana’s Revealed Comparative Advantage in Agro-Processed Products

Oduro¹,

Offei²

2014

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Export diversification through agro-processing has been a policy objective of successive governments. In the most recent policy document the processing of horticultural products including fruits has been emphasised. Using four indices of revealed comparative advantage, nine agroprocessed product groups have been identified in which Ghana has a comparative advantage. However, the share of agro-processed products in which Ghana has a comparative advantage declined over the period 2004 to 2011. We recommend that policies should be designed to encourage expansion of exports in the nine identified product groups as well as to reverse the decline in the share of agro-processed products in which Ghana has a comparative advantage.

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“…See Hinloopen and Van Marrewijk's (2001) study on the empirical distribution of the Balassa index and the problem of the incomparability of RXA scores across countries.…”

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Food Quality and Product Export Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the EU Situation

Fischer

2010

Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing

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The relationship between product quality and export performance is investigated. Five EU countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom), 3 product categories (cheese, meat preparations, and wine), 3 export destinations (intra-European Union, extraEuropean Union, and world), and 2 periods (1995-1999 and 2000-2005) are analyzed. The regression results show that the connection between product quality and export performance depends on the product category (but not on the period) and differs (but not in all cases) according to the export destination. An implication arising from this analysis is that considering international marketing of quality food products in teaching and training programs could contribute to the enhancement of EU agribusiness competitiveness in increasingly liberalized and quality-conscious markets.

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On the empirical distribution of the Balassa index

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Cited by 275 publications

References 20 publications

Agri-food trade of the new member states since the EU accession

Agri-food trade of the new member states since the EU accession

Investigating Ghana’s Revealed Comparative Advantage in Agro-Processed Products

Food Quality and Product Export Performance: An Empirical Investigation of the EU Situation

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