Agricultural Economics, 2018 (vol. 64), issue 2
Drivers of the duration of comparative advantage in the European Union's agri-food exportsOriginal Paper
Stefan Bojnec, Imre Ferto
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(2):51-60 | DOI: 10.17221/173/2016-AGRICECON 
The article investigates the duration of comparative advantage indices in the European Union (EU-27) agri-food exports using the normalised revealed comparative advantage index on the global market. There is employed both a descriptive analysis of the duration of comparative advantage, and examined the major drivers using discrete-time duration models with proper controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The robustness of the models is tested with alternative estimation procedures and sub-samples. Estimations show that the comparative advantages for most agri-food products survived for a certain number of years, but a high percentage of them have a shorter...
The agricultural sector has the most efficient management of state receivables in the Czech RepublicOriginal Paper
Karel ZEMAN, Jan HRON
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(2):61-73 | DOI: 10.17221/257/2016-AGRICECON
The article's objective, which is to identify the causes of the very poor level of management of the administration of these state assets, to present the possibilities of a long-tested experimental model at the Land Fund of the Czech Republic, and to draw attention to this model's potential in its possible implementation in administration of the entire management complex of these state assets in the Czech Republic. The authors first dealt with the theoretical aspects of the given issue, and then prepared an analysis of the original debt collection management "system". This is logically followed by an analysis of the experimental model's efficiency,...
Assessment of the operational and environmental efficiency of agriculture in Latin America and the CaribbeanOriginal Paper
Juan-Javier MORENO-MORENO, Francisco VELASCO MORENTE, Maria Teresa SANZ DIAZ
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(2):74-88 | DOI: 10.17221/260/2016-AGRICECON
Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) require information that can be used to strengthen environmental agricultural strategies. However, in LAC there is not enough comparative analysis regarding operational performance and environmental performance, which are particularly important for sustainable agriculture. The objective of this study is the measurement of operational, environmental and unified (operational and environmental) efficiency through data envelopment analysis (DEA) for an environmental assessment in the agricultural sectors of eighteen LAC countries. The DEA in this study evaluates each country based on six variables: capital...
The performance measurement and productivity change of agro and food industry in the stock exchange of ThailandOriginal Paper
Rapee PONGPANICH, Ke-Chung PENG, Anupong WONGCHAI
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2018, 64(2):89-99 | DOI: 10.17221/15/2016-AGRICECON
At present, the agro and food industry has a high influence to farmers in Thailand. Most of the raw materials of agriculture are sent to its manufactoring. This industry has an important role to raise the growth of the Thai economy. The main objective of the paper is to study the production trends and ability operations of the agro and food industry by using economic tools analyse two sub-industry sectors. The paper reviewed literatures on the performance measurement and productivity change of the business sector to obtain the relative variables and optimal methodology. The paper designed to use the panel data of the agro and food industry during the...