Agricultural Economics, 2016 (vol. 62), issue 10
Sustainable consumption of bakery products; a challenge for Czech consumers and producersOriginal Paper
Tomas RATINGER, Adam TOMKA, Iveta BOSKOVA
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(10):447-458 | DOI: 10.17221/244/2015-AGRICECON 
The objective of this paper is to investigate the level of bakery product wastes in Czech households, economic, social and institutional factors which affect bakery products consumption and wastes and which role producers, retailers and consumers themselves play in it. The research deploys quantitative assessment of the relationship between prices, income and consumed quantities and qualitative assessment (surveys and focus groups) of opinions and attitudes of consumers, producers and retailers to wastes. To do the analysis we consider the model of social practices. We addressed a sample made by 260 respondents. The results suggest the actual wastes...
Networks and export performance of agri-food firms: New evidence linking micro and macro determinantsOriginal Paper
Raul SERRANO, Isabel ACERO, Marta FERNANDEZ-OLMOS
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(10):459-470 | DOI: 10.17221/71/2015-AGRICECON
The paper complements a new line of research that includes the firm heterogeneity in trade models. The central idea of this research is that only the largest and most efficient firms are capable of exporting. However, the empirical evidence has confirmed that a large number of SMEs is also involved in internationalisation. Given this context, the aim of the paper is to analyse the influence of collaborative networks between firms and institutions as an alternative mechanism to the small size of the majority of the firms in the agri-food industry. To this end, there was used a longitudinal panel between 1994 and 2012 comprising a sample of 342 Spanish...
Determinants of the revealed comparative advantages: The case of the European ham tradeOriginal Paper
Aron TOROK, Attila JAMBOR
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(10):471-482 | DOI: 10.17221/177/2015-AGRICECON
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 works. Moreover, the determinants of revealed comparative advantages are scarcely investigated. This article analyses revealed comparative advantages in European ham trade from 1999 to 2013 and identifies its determinants by using the panel data econometrics. The results suggest that quality linked to the production area highly affects the competitiveness of the European ham trade. Also, the EU accession is positively correlated with the competitiveness, meaning that the economic...
Assessment of milk production competitiveness of the Slovak Republic within the EU-27 countriesOriginal Paper
Dusan SIMO, Ladislav MURA, Jan BULECA
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(10):482-492 | DOI: 10.17221/270/2015-AGRICECON
Raw cow milk represents one of the most important commodity in the agricultural market. The Slovak agro-food foreign trade is characterized by a substantial increase in the commodity trade, monitoring of competitiveness is therefore very important. The aim of the article was to evaluate the current situation of breeding processes in the cattle production with focus to the raw cow milk production and dairy products; and to compare the competitiveness of the domestic supply with the EU-27 countries. To quantify the evaluation of competitiveness, mathematical and statistical methods were used. Indicators of the exposed comparative advantage (RCA); the...