There is a common perception among consumers that the retail prices respond faster to an increase in the price of raw material than to a decrease. This paper aims at testing the existence of such asymmetric price transmission in the cocoa-chocolate chain on the French market. Two types of...

The aim of this paper is to explore the channels of transmission of the fluctuations in the world price of cocoa to the consumer of chocolate bars in France. This case study can be considered as an illustration of a more general pattern of asymmetric vertical price transmission in the...

[eng] This paper is based on Prebisch and Singer’s work on the deterioration in the terms of trade of developing economies. Using a game-theory model, we can explain the decline in the cocoa-bean price relative to the price of chocolate bars in the French market. One implication of the model...

There is a common perception among consumers that the retail prices respond faster to an increase in the price of raw material than to a decrease. This paper aims at testing the existence of such asymmetric price transmission in the cocoa-chocolate chain on the French market. Two types of...

In this note we provide a brief survey of the literature about the effects of exports instability in developing countries, mainly focused on commodity dependent economies. Whatever the nature of instability, exports instability generate major disturbances in those economies. Exports instability...

It is frequent, especially in the African context, to find a negative and statistically significant coefficient associated with human capital when it is introduced into the estimation of a plot-level production function. We provide an explanation for this paradox in the context of a...

Dans cet article, nous examinons les conséquences de l’insécurité foncière sur la croissance économique au Brésil à partir d’un modèle dynamique d’une économie comportant un secteur agricole et un secteur manufacturé. La terre est à la fois un facteur de production spécifique...