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Cost pass-through in the Swedish coffee market

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  • Dick Durevall

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Cost pass-through to retail prices shows how changes in marginal costs are allocated between producers and consumers, and it is, therefore, closely related to market structure and competition. This paper uses Swedish data on coffee products at the barcode level to evaluate pass-through from the cost of green coffee beans, the main marginal cost, to the retail price of roasted and ground coffee. First long-run cost pass-through is estimated for each product, and then regression is used to analyse how pass-through varies across market shares, retailer-owned brands and other product characteristics. A general result is that pass-through is roughly complete for products with large market shares, while those with small market shares have low pass-through rates. There is no evidence that retailer-owned brands have higher pass-through than brand-name products with similar market shares, which would be the case if retailer-owned brands avoided double marginalisation through vertical integration. Thus, although there is not perfect competition in the Swedish coffee market, a large part of it appears to be highly competitive.

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  • Dick Durevall, 2018. "Cost pass-through in the Swedish coffee market," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 45(4), pages 505-529.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:erevae:v:45:y:2018:i:4:p:505-529.
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    1. Thomas Bittmann & Jens-Peter Loy, 2021. "Price transmission and cost pass-through on the German dairy value chain," Journal of New Economy, Ural State University of Economics, vol. 22(3), pages 84-102, October.
    2. Juan M. C. Larrosa & Leandro Meller & Juan I. Uriarte & Gonzalo R. Ramírez Muñoz de Toro, 2023. "Retail coffee pricing dynamics in Argentina," SN Business & Economics, Springer, vol. 3(8), pages 1-21, August.
    3. Atanu Ghoshray & Sushil Mohan, 2021. "Coffee price dynamics: an analysis of the retail-international price margin [Commodity dependence and development: suggestions to tackle the commodities problem]," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press and the European Agricultural and Applied Economics Publications Foundation, vol. 48(4), pages 983-1006.

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