Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2023, 69(12):498-509 | DOI: 10.17221/248/2023-AGRICECON

A constant market share analysis of the competitiveness of the Czech Republic’s agrifood exports (2002–2020) to the European UnionOriginal Paper

Ivo Zdráhal ORCID...1, Francois Stefanus Lategan ORCID...1, Melissa van der Merwe ORCID...2
1 Department of Regional and Business Economy, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa

We conducted a quantitative ex post analysis of the competitiveness of the Czech Republic’s agrifood exports to other European Union (EU) Member States between 2002 and 2020, using the constant market share (CMS) methodology. The application of this methodology to Czech agrifood exports is novel, as it allows for analysing the export competitiveness variation and its components. Although the findings are consistent with those of previous studies in which the investigators used alternative methodological approaches, we make three contributions to the existing literature. Firstly, the Czech Republic experienced an overall increase in its competitiveness in agrifood exports between 2002 and 2020. Secondly, the high territorial specialisation of Czech agrifood exports to other EU Member States, combined with a general slowdown in the growth of EU markets, has had a significant effect on the growth dynamics of the country’s agricultural exports. Thirdly, there is a problem with the specialisation profile of Czech agrifood exports in terms of commodity and territorial structure. The current composition does not allow the Czech Republic to reach its full potential for agrifood exports. These findings will help industrial, agricultural and trade policymakers to assess the nature of liberalisation and transformation of the Czech Republic’s agricultural sectors, with a view to improving or designing structures and instruments for the promotion of agrifood exports.

Keywords: agriculture; agrifood sectors; EU-28 market; international trade; liberalisation; trade specialisation

Received: July 25, 2023; Revised: December 1, 2023; Accepted: December 4, 2023; Prepublished online: December 15, 2023; Published: December 19, 2023  Show citation

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Zdráhal I, Lategan FS, van der Merwe M. A constant market share analysis of the competitiveness of the Czech Republic’s agrifood exports (2002–2020) to the European Union. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2023;69(12):498-509. doi: 10.17221/248/2023-AGRICECON.
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