Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India

The standard approach to modelling the relationship between world and producer prices of coffee does not incorporate the effects of changing government policies and market structures. These changes have led to large structural breaks in the relationship between the prices implying the standard estim...

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Main Authors: Russell, Bill, Mohan, Sushil, Banerjee, Anindya
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19082
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spelling okr-10986-190822021-04-23T14:03:51Z Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India Russell, Bill Mohan, Sushil Banerjee, Anindya agricultural products beans cherries coffee coffee market coffee markets coffee prices coffee producers coffee production coffee sector coffee trade commodity crop green beans pesticide produce production costs quality coffee seedlings unregulated markets The standard approach to modelling the relationship between world and producer prices of coffee does not incorporate the effects of changing government policies and market structures. These changes have led to large structural breaks in the relationship between the prices implying the standard estimates are biased. We model coffee prices in Brazil, Guatemala and India allowing for the structural breaks and show that the liberalisation of coffee markets has benefited producers substantially both in terms of a higher share of the world price of coffee and higher real prices. This suggests that calls to re-regulate coffee markets may be misplaced. 2014-07-30T20:21:06Z 2014-07-30T20:21:06Z 2012-11 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X 10.1093/wber/lhr055 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19082 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Brazil Guatemala India
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topic agricultural products
beans
cherries
coffee
coffee market
coffee markets
coffee prices
coffee producers
coffee production
coffee sector
coffee trade
commodity
crop
green beans
pesticide
produce
production costs
quality coffee
seedlings
unregulated markets
spellingShingle agricultural products
beans
cherries
coffee
coffee market
coffee markets
coffee prices
coffee producers
coffee production
coffee sector
coffee trade
commodity
crop
green beans
pesticide
produce
production costs
quality coffee
seedlings
unregulated markets
Russell, Bill
Mohan, Sushil
Banerjee, Anindya
Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
geographic_facet Brazil
Guatemala
India
description The standard approach to modelling the relationship between world and producer prices of coffee does not incorporate the effects of changing government policies and market structures. These changes have led to large structural breaks in the relationship between the prices implying the standard estimates are biased. We model coffee prices in Brazil, Guatemala and India allowing for the structural breaks and show that the liberalisation of coffee markets has benefited producers substantially both in terms of a higher share of the world price of coffee and higher real prices. This suggests that calls to re-regulate coffee markets may be misplaced.
format Journal Article
author Russell, Bill
Mohan, Sushil
Banerjee, Anindya
author_facet Russell, Bill
Mohan, Sushil
Banerjee, Anindya
author_sort Russell, Bill
title Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
title_short Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
title_full Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
title_fullStr Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
title_full_unstemmed Coffee Market Liberalisation and the Implications for Producers in Brazil, Guatemala and India
title_sort coffee market liberalisation and the implications for producers in brazil, guatemala and india
publisher Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2014
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19082
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