The Ghana cocoa market has been extensively liberalised over the period since the mid 1980s. Three issues have been … occurred. In this paper we investigate these issues by estimating a production function for cocoa in Ghana drawing on two … such inputs to cocoa production has increased both relative to land and, very substantially, relative to labour. The ratio …

the family ARCH as analysis tool with relationship to the behavior of the return of the cocoa, of the fatcow, of the … volatility. The markets are asymmetric for the return of these commodities. For the future market of the fat ox and of the cocoa …

Previous attempts at identifying and estimating a time-varying risk premium in the cocoa futures market yielded …-varying risk premium in the cocoa futures market is re-investigated using LM ARCH tests and a Quadratic ARCH in Mean Error … of a positive time-varying [or constant] risk premium in the cocoa futures market at conventional significance levels …

exporting countries. We investigate the benefits of export taxation for Côted'Ivoire, the dominant exporter of cocoa. Where many …

cocoa beans; (ii) the impacts of cocoa export taxes on domestic welfare. In particular, it attempts to develop a two … on Indonesian exports of cocoa beans would indeed divert some of the crop to domestic use. However, this leads to … significant losses to cocoa bean producers and does little to develop a processing sector. Second, interdependence between major …

Market access to export cocoa beans in many cocoa producing countries has improved greatly due to trade liberalization … in the cocoa sector. This has been accomplished through a variety of policy instruments, primarily structural adjustment … programs (SAPs). In reducing or eliminating the role of state-owned and operated marketing and exporting boards, cocoa …

Lesotho; and has slightly declined in Ghana. The underlying factors with regard to the apparent increase hinge on the …