recently, in supermarkets and shopping centres. The fair trade product with the highest market share is coffee. This study aims … to ascertain the implicit price paid by Italian consumers for the fair trade content of coffee and how this implicit … is the province. Since scanner data are used, the analysis can allow for the coffee attributes described by the labels …

More and more coffee-producing countries establish geographical indications (GIs) for their coffees. GIs are not only … strategic tool to enter the growing specialty coffee market. Whereas the importance of regional reputation is quite well …-documented in the empirical literature on wine, empirical evidence for regional reputational effects on coffee prices is rather …

in the so-called specialty coffee sector. Similar to the approach for wine in France and Italy, more and more coffee …-producing countries try to establish appellations systems for coffee. Whereas some countries and regions such as Colombia or Jamaica have … already legally protected GIs for coffee, most coffee GIs are still informal meaning that no legal protection has been …

The commodity nature of green coffee is the main cause of “the coffee paradox” (decreasing prices at production level … the supply chain would be to “decommodify” the coffee market not only at the final consumer level, but also at the … production area ). The aim of this article is to question the ability of GIs to “decommodify” the coffee market also on the …

three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in …

This paper estimates trade duration of raw coffee exports into the European Union (EU) market comparing different … discrete-time duration models using monthly trade panel data from 1988 to 2013. As coffee is an important export commodity and … essential. Results reveal that major gravity model variables also explain duration of EU coffee imports. Moreover, we find that …