The paper models export taxation of a primary commodity in a large country under two hypotheses about the structure of … its export market. The first is perfect competition among exporters, where there is an indefinite number of buyers of the … influence domestic prices. For both hypotheses, export taxation can be justified on efficiency grounds only for the country that …

This paper extends the partial (PE) and general equilibrium (GE) analyses of Nash and Stackelberg optimum export taxes … to a multicountry framework, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the global cocoa market. There are … several important results to report. First, depending on the leader's market share and cocoa supply elasticity, a Stackelberg …

This study investigates the Indonesian cocoa production to reveal the possibilities for poverty alleviation while … frontier analysis, the technical efficiency of cocoa production and decompose productivity growth. According to our results …, the productivity of Indonesian cocoa farming increased by 75 percent between 2001 and 2013. Technical efficiency growth …