This paper draws upon a critical analysis of the three RCA indexes in Vollrath (1991) to
propose a new class of RCA indexes. The baseline RCA index in this new class rests on the …

Revealed comparative advantages are widely used by the global literature to analyse the
international trade flows, though agricultural trade is usually neglected in the empirical …

Revealed comparative advantages are widely used by the global literature to analyse
international trade flows, though agricultural trade is usually neglected in empirical works …

The European Union (EU) is one of the biggest traders of agricultural products. In 2017,
extra-EU agricultural trade accounted for 7.4% of the total EU international trade …

This paper investigates the drivers of agri-food intra-industry trade (IIT) indices in the
European Union (EU-27) member states during the period from 2000–2011. The increased …

There exists a rich empirical literature on the presence of intra-industry trade (IIT), ie,
simultaneous exports and imports within the same product groups and its determinants, both …

We investigate determinants of quality upgrades in EU agri‐food exports using panel data
models for the period 2000–2011. By employing highly disaggregated data we show that the …

The agriculture of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries as well as of the Soviet
Union was an often studied area in the 1970 s and 1980 s among agricultural economists …

A distinctive feature of India's trade liberalization has been a significant rise in the magnitude
of intra-industry trade (IIT). India's total IIT is substantially large with high and upper-middle …

Although research of intra-industry trade (IIT) has been intensive in the last several decades,
the empirical literature focusing on this phenomenon in the Western Balkans countries …