The major objective of this study was to examine the impact of Coffee exports on economic growth in Ethiopia. The study employed an extended generalized Cobb–Douglas production function model using data from the National Bank of Ethiopia and World Bank data base from 1980 to 2017. All the...

World coffee prices may have crucial implications on domestic prices of coffee. However, empirical evidence on the effect of world coffee prices on the price of coffee traded at the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) is very scant. The main objective of this study is to analyze the response of...

Coffee as being the world’s second most legally traded commodity after petroleum and it is consumed all over the world. Turkish Coffee is unique with the way coffee is made and served and has an important place in everyday culture of Turkish society. The transformation of the coffee culture of...

This study investigates the patterns of global coffee trade flows and identifies the major determinants of global coffee trade by incorporating RTAs as important variable. Gravity modeling with OLS and PPML estimator was employed for the analysis using panel data on bilateral coffee trade flows...

In the past two decades, markets grew to accommodate no less than 435 “eco-labels” or standards such as Organic, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and UTZ Certified, that claim some aspect of sustainability. They constitute multi-billion dollar markets and the world’s leading food and...

Coffee is Ethiopia’s most important export commodity, cultivated by over 6 million smallholder farmers in the country, and accounting for about one-third of the country’s commodity exports. While coffee production has increased over the last decade, coffee yields are low and several...

This paper introduces a way of testing the predictive power of structural models. Based on retail market scanner data for ground coffee in Germany during the period 2002 to 2012, I compare marginal cost estimates for coffee store brands from an out-ofsample prediction to estimates based on a...

Almost all previous studies of Asymmetric Price Transmission (APT) only focused on speed perspective. The study aims to investigate the effect of coffee prices in the global market on the Indonesian producer market in magnitude, speed, and direction perspectives. This study used the data of...

In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....

This paper analyzes the relation between exogenous changes in commodity export prices and the real exchange rate in a monetary economy. The traditional Dutch?Disease case is extended, and the monetary consequences of an export boom are explored. It is shown that commodity export booms can...

Placing coffee at the center of its analysis, this volume links East Germany's consumption and food culture to its relationship to the wider world. Andrew Kloiber reveals the ways that everyday cultural practices surrounding coffee drinking not only connected East Germans to a global system of...

Fairtrade labeling has the potential to increase market efficiency by connecting farmers to altruistic consumers who are willing to pay a premium for sustainability-certified products. A requirement for increased efficiency, though, is that the farmers' benefits are larger than the Fairtrade...

One of the institutions involved in coffee value chain in Indonesia is the cooperative. We compare the experience of two cooperatives in exporting coffee beans. The Margamulya Coffee Producer Cooperative currently exports coffee beans directly and through an exporter, while the Mitra Malabar...

The advent of biotechnology and conservation of genetic resources hold promise to improve traits to meet the challenges to coffee growing from climate change. Developing new varieties by integrating traits in high demand by farmers could greatly increase farmers' adoption of new varieties. This...

It is very difficult to find a suitable location for a coffee processing plant from many alternatives. This research-developed a model by Analytic hierarchy pair wise that gives full information for a coffee processing plant to select a suitable location from alternatives as its objective. The...

How does competition affect market outcomes when formal contracts are not enforceable, and parties resort to relational contracts? Difficulties with measuring relational contracts and dealing with the endogeneity of competition have frustrated attempts to answer this question. We make progress...

Dependency on natural resources has made economies unstable because of the fluctuation of commodity prices. However, coffee production has not had this effect on the Colombian economy owing to the process of upgrading the value chain, with the Colombian National Federation of Coffee Growers...

While rice trading gave birth to derivative finance in 17th century Japan, the rice market is globally unfinancialized and seems to stand as an anomaly within commodity trade. The Vietnamese industry is not an exception within the world rice market; it is presently deprived of derivative...

Most analysis of agricultural commodity market integration is solely based on price information. However, adding trade data can improve the understanding of interactions between interrelated markets. We link the analysis of price transmission processes between spot and futures markets with trade...