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Increased Cocoa Bean Exports under Trade Liberalization: A Gravity Model Approach

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  • Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman
  • Shaik, Saleem
  • Wozniak, Shawn J.
  • Allen, Albert J.

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Gravity models were developed to estimate the potential bilateral exports of cocoa under trade liberalization by the sixteen major cocoa producing countries to the US using panel data from 1989 to 2003. The results indicate that differences between resource endowment, relative size of economies, and the sum of bilateral GDP of U.S. and exporting countries are the major determinants. Thus, as trade is liberalized, farmers share of the world price of cocoa increases and this raises exports.

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  • Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman & Shaik, Saleem & Wozniak, Shawn J. & Allen, Albert J., 2008. "Increased Cocoa Bean Exports under Trade Liberalization: A Gravity Model Approach," 2008 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2008, Dallas, Texas 6819, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:saeaed:6819
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.6819
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