Speculation and price volatility in the coffee market

31 May 2021 | Publication

Work area(s)

International trade and integration

Topic(s)

International trade Macroeconomics Prices Value chains

Speculation and price volatility in the coffee market

  • Publication type: Project documents
  • Author: Aliaga Lordemann, Javier; Mora-García, Claudio; Mulder, Nanno
  • Physical description: 36 páginas.
  • Publisher: CEPAL
  • UN symbol (Signature): LC/TS.2021/59
  • Date: 31 May 2021

Abstract

Green coffee growers, most of whom are smallholders, have suffered from the significant volatility and fall in the international price of this commodity over the past decade. It is therefore crucial to understand the factors that drive price volatility, which has been studied extensively for other commodities but not for coffee. This study looks into the determinants of the conditional volatility of green coffee prices in three different markets: spot, futures and physical.

Table of contents

  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • I. Determinants of price volatility (second moment) A. State variables. B. Economic variables. C. Market structure variables. -- II. Data description and sources. -- III. Description of the time series and specifications
  • IV. Methodology. -- V. Empirical results
  • VI. Discussion and conclusions.

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