exploit historical variations in the structure of the international coffee bean market to assess the impact of a cartel treaty … on coffee prices and its global welfare consequences. The results suggest the International Coffee Agreement (ICA, 1965 … to exporting countries, and its lapse in 1989 explains four-fifths of the subsequent price decline, that is, the "coffee …

coffee production, exports and price. Our empirical specification is consistent with an economic model of the coffee market … study of the effects of unpredictable innovations to ENSO on the Colombian coffee price, while controlling for shocks …) might be beneficial for production and exports and tend to decrease the price of coffee. On the contrary, La Niña conditions …

Based on a case study of the burgeoning high-end ("Third Wave") coffee market in the United States, this discussion …, and marketers have created a new lexicon of quality for coffee, one tied to narratives of provenance and exclusivity that … creates much of the value added in the coffee trade. This disadvantages smallholding coffee farmers who are heavily invested …