processes between spot and futures markets with trade information to study the influence of Brazilian coffee exports on global … over time. Our results reveal two regimes. One regime is characterized by periods of sideways or downward trending coffee … by the total daily volume and value of Brazilian coffee exports. …

export of cane sugar to coffee. This paper explores the mechanism underlying this shift by exploiting a wealth of new monthly … data on the Brazilian and international coffee and cane sugar markets during the period 1827-40. I argue that the timing of … the coffee boom was driven by a rapid increase in foreign market potential associated with the abolition of the tariff on …

This paper studies the history of contractual choice in coffee plantations of São Paulo, Brazil. It focuses on the …