Agricultural Economics, 2016 (vol. 62), issue 7
Export competitiveness of the European Union in fruit and vegetable products in the global marketsOriginal Paper
Stefan BOJNEC, Imre FERTO
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(7):299-310 | DOI: 10.17221/156/2015-AGRICECON 
The research provides evidence on the fruit and vegetable products export competitiveness of the European Union (EU-27) member states in the global markets. The revealed comparative advantage index is used to analyse the levels and compositions in the export competitiveness by differentiated fruit and vegetable products. Most of the EU-27 member states experienced revealed comparative disadvantages in the fruit and vegetable products in the global markets. Spain and the Netherlands experienced the most robust results of the revealed comparative advantages between 2000 and 2011 and among fruit and vegetable groups of products. Most other of the EU-27...
Consequences of supports to the economic situation of farms with respect to their sizeOriginal Paper
Zdenka NAGLOVA, Martin GURTLER
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(7):311-323 | DOI: 10.17221/191/2015-AGRICECON
The article is dealing with an issue of subsidies granted to agricultural enterprises arising from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The aim of the paper is to quantify the effects of the individual subsidies that were used by agricultural enterprises according to their profits, losses and revenues. The size structure of agricultural enterprises in the Czech Republic is taken into account for more detailed measures of the subsidy impact. The article uses key data such as financial statements of agricultural enterprises and subsidies that were received by companies over the years 2007-2011. The analysis was performed by using the fixed effect model....
Asymmetric competition in food industry with product substitutabilityOriginal Paper
Yong-cong YANG, Pu-yan NIE
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(7):324-333 | DOI: 10.17221/130/2015-AGRICECON
The paper analyses the effects of asymmetric competition on food industry with product substitutability by establishing a two-stage dynamic game model. The equilibrium is captured under both the Cournot competition and Stackelberg competition. Firstly, under the Cournot competition, lower costs yield a higher quality, more outputs and higher profits. Secondly, the cost difference increases the quality difference, the market size difference and the profit difference. Thirdly, a U-shaped relationship between the product substitutability and the food quality exists. Finally, compared with the case under the Cournot competition, the food security is significantly...
The level and determinants of work profitability changes in the Czech and Polish agricultural sector in the years 2004-2014Original Paper
Zbigniew GOLAS
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2016, 62(7):334-344 | DOI: 10.17221/159/2015-AGRICECON
The main aim of the study was to analyse changes in the work profitability in the agricultural sector in the Czech Republic and Poland in the post-accession period. The study used the Economic Accounts for Agriculture, which enabled the analysis of the economic situation in agriculture according to the uniform standards. The study was based on a system of work profitability indexes and factor analysis. The research proved that during the post-accession period (2004-2014), in the average work profitability in agriculture increased in the real terms by 6.69% per annum in the Czech Republic and by 5.66% per annum in Poland. As results from the factor...