The Role of Trade-in-Tasks For the Competitiveness of the European Pig Industry
| dc.creator | Hess, Sebastian | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:19:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:35:21Z | |
| dc.description | The global trend of agro-industrialisation is increasingly transforming farms and firms into specialist component suppliers within a multi-stage food processing chain. The trade-in-tasks theory predicts in this context that declining costs for cross-country outsourcing of certain stages of the production process (tasks) generates intra-industry trade and may increase the competitiveness of the final product. Based on this theory, a conceptual framework was established and empirically applied to the EU27 pig industry. The results suggest that the average EU country could increase the competitiveness of its processed meat exports; one potential source of these gains can be structural change among pig farms in other EU countries, which is utilized through vertical intra-industry trade in live pigs. In contrast, changes in outsourcing costs since 2002 due to changes in EU membership or due to the adoption of the Euro appeared non-significant in panel regressions. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.187438 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187438/files/The%20Role%20of%20Trade-in-Tasks%20for%20the%20Competitiveness%20of%20the%20European%20Pig%20Industry.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187438 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/600612 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187438 | |
| dc.title | The Role of Trade-in-Tasks For the Competitiveness of the European Pig Industry | |
| dc.type | Text |