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Brazil's Comparative Advantages and Specialization Dynamics in Agri-food Trade
	    ZDRÁHAL, Ivo; Martin HRABÁLEK; Petr KADLEC and Oldřich KRPEC
	
	
	
	    
	
     
 
	
	Basic information
	
		Original name
		Brazil's Comparative Advantages and Specialization Dynamics in Agri-food Trade
	 
				Authors
				ZDRÁHAL, Ivo (203 Czech Republic); Martin HRABÁLEK (203 Czech Republic); Petr KADLEC (203 Czech Republic) and Oldřich KRPEC (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
			 
			
				Edition
				 Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Praha, Faculty of Economics and Management CULS Prague, 2021, 1804-1930
			 
		
Other information
		
	
		
			Type of outcome
			Article in a journal
		 
	
		
			Country of publisher
			Czech Republic
		 
	
		
			Confidentiality degree
			is not subject to a state or trade secret
		 
	
			
		
		
			RIV identification code
			RIV/00216224:14230/21:00123634
		 
	
			
				Organization
				Fakulta sociálních studií – Repository – Repository
			 
		
			
		
			EID Scopus
			2-s2.0-85109450348
		 
		
			Keywords in English
			European Union; Liberalization; Markov Chain Model; MERCOSUR; Specialization
		 
			
			
				
					In the original language
					In the last decades Brazil has become a global agri-food powerhouse. The article interrogates the shape and its stability of revealed comparative advantages in 46 of its agri-food products for the period 1995-2017. The results support the argument that the Brazil's agri-food trade was formed by comparative advantages of specific agri-food sectors. The results show that the external shape of agri-food specialization has strengthened, first since early 2000s and second when the trade shifted more towards China. The pattern was stable according revealed comparative (dis)advantage of particular products, more changes occurred in each product's score and in ranking of products. Products without initial comparative advantage seem to remain uncompetitive whilst the products with strong initial comparative advantage continue to be competitive. The persistence in distribution has increased. This suggests, the shape of Brazil's revealed comparative advantage in agri-food trade has evolved towards its finite structure (ceteris paribus).
				  
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