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Acquisitions, Management, and Efficiency in Rwanda's Coffee Industry
Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334447
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Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States : Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
Fritscher, André C. Martínez - 2009
commodities that were in high demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) between 1891 and 1930 ended up having higher revenues per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463238
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Cities, Productivity, and Trade
Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2020
We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482527
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, A. Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457086
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Commodity Export Boom and the Real Exchange Rate : The Money-Inflation Link
Edwards, Sebastian - 1985
This paper analyzes the relation between exogenous changes in commodity export prices and the real exchange rate in a monetary economy. The traditional Dutch?Disease case is extended, and the monetary consequences of an export boom are explored. It is shown that commodity export booms can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477338
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Are Windfalls a Curse? A Non-Representative Agent Model of the Current Account and Fiscal Policy
Tornell, Aaron - 1994
In several countries temporary terms of trade improvements have led to a deterioration of the current account. Furthermore, many of these countries failed to attain greater post-boom growth rates. The point we make is that the structure of the fiscal process is critical in determining outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474076
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Commodity Export Prices and the Real Exchange Rate in Developing Countries : Coffee in Colombia
Edwards, Sebastian - 1985
coffee price changes, with more observers emphasizing the consequences of coffee price changes on money creation and … inflation. The results obtained indicate that coffee price changes have indeed been closely related to money creation and … inflation. Also, coffee price changes have been negatively related to the rate of devaluation of the crawling peg. These results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477515
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Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda
Duflo, Esther; Keniston, Daniel; Suri, Tavneet; Zipfel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322756
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The Effects of Fair Trade Certification : Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
Dragusanu, Raluca - 2018
We examine the effects of Fair Trade (FT) certification of coffee on producers and households in Costa Rica. Examining … the production dynamics of the universe of Costa Rican coffee mills from 1999-2014, we find that FT certification is … associated with a higher sales price, greater sales, and more revenues. As expected, these effects are greater when global coffee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453454
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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions … light on why the United States supported (or failed to support) international commodity agreements for coffee, sugar, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334385