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Empirical Evidences from a Coffee Paradox: An Export Supply/Price Asymmetry Approach

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  • Kang, Hyunsoo
  • Kennedy, P. Lynn

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This paper aims to determine the solidity of the notion of the "coffee paradox" using annual data from 1977 to 2007. In the confines of an export supply model, we analyze the effects of export coffee price on export volume. Price and profit equation are used to determine the effects of market power on export coffee price and measure changes in the retail and export price. We also estimate the elasticity of transmission and price asymmetry as a means of verifying the "coffee paradox." Ordinary Least Square (OLS), Instrumental Variables (IV), and simultaneous equation with Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) methods of econometric analysis are employed. Empirical results suggest that the world coffee market is characterized by "coffee paradox" due to different changes between retail and export prices of coffee, and that it is the existence of market power in importing countries that is the main contributor to the condition of price asymmetry.

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Article provided by Korea Rural Economic Institute in its journal Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje.

Volume (Year): 32 (2009)
Issue (Month): 3 (July)
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Handle: RePEc:ags:jordng:90687
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Keywords: export supply model; coffee paradox; elasticity of transmission; price asymmetry; price equation; profit equation; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; International Relations/Trade;

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  1. Bin Qiu & Kuntal K. Das & W. Robert Reed, 2016. "The Effect of Exchange Rates on Chinese Trade: A Dual Margin Approach," Working Papers in Economics 16/17, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance.

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