Information and communication infrastructure development and agro-food trade

Štefan Bojnec (Author), Imre Fertő (Author)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an adapted gravity trade model to measure the influence of communication infrastructure development on agro-foodtrade. The adapted gravity trade model presents associations of bilateral agro-food trade between OECD countries with traditional gravity equation variables and particularly with variables of the information and communication infrastructure development. Using the adapted gravity trade model we find a positive association between the information and communication infrastructure development and bilateral agro-food trade flows between OECD countries. This association is significantly stronger for agricultural than for food products. The improved information and communication infrastructure development improves information and reduces trade transaction costs.

Keywords

communication infrastructure;agro-food trade;adapted gravity model;OECD coutries;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2011
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UP FM - Faculty of Management Koper
UDC:	63:339
COBISS:	3889367
ISSN:	0139-570X
Views:	2944
Downloads:	309
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Secondary language:	Unknown
Secondary title:	Vývoj komunikačni a informačni infrastruktury a zemědělsko-potravinářský obchod
Secondary keywords:	trgovina;prehrana;kmetijski proizvodi;komunikaijska infrastruktura;države OECD;
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 64-70
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ57
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ2
Chronology:	2011
Keywords (UDC):	applied sciences;medicine;technology;uporabne znanosti;medicina;tehnika;agriculture and related sciences and techniques;forestry;farming;wildlife exploitation;kmetijstvo ter sorodne vede in tehnologije;social sciences;družbene vede;economics;economic science;ekonomija;ekonomske vede;trade;commerce;international economic relations;world economy;trgovina;tržišče;marketing;
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