Grassnick, Nina; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2021
(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and grinders to ensure accessto these markets. Yet, their trade effects are … unclear. We study the effect of a VSSon raw and processed cocoa exports. We use a unique dataset that contains the … UTZCertified cocoa production quantity of cocoa-producing countries from 2010 to 2016.This allows us to estimate a gravity model of …