The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) was established in April 2008 with the objective of improving market efficiency by better linking smallholder farmers to markets, encouraging reliable trading relationships and increasing market information. In December 2008 it became mandatory to trade all cof...

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Autores principales: Hernandez, Manuel A., Lemma, Solomon, Rashid, Shahidur
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Association of Agricultural Economists 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150340
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Lemma, Solomon
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description The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) was established in April 2008 with the objective of improving market efficiency by better linking smallholder farmers to markets, encouraging reliable trading relationships and increasing market information. In December 2008 it became mandatory to trade all coffee through the ECX. This paper examines whether Ethiopian coffee prices have become more integrated to world prices after the implementation of the ECX. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach to evaluate the degree of correlation and volatility transmission across international, auction and producer price returns. We focus on the five major Ethiopian coffee varieties using monthly data for the period 1992 through 2013. The estimation results indicate that not all coffee regions have necessarily become more connected to world markets, at least not in the first five years after the implementation of the mandatory regulation. We also do not find a higher integration across regional coffee prices Hernandez, Manuel; Lemma, Solomon; Rashid, Shahidur
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spelling CGSpace1503402024-11-13T12:23:14Z The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets? Hernandez, Manuel A. Lemma, Solomon Rashid, Shahidur commodities markets coffee prices international trade The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) was established in April 2008 with the objective of improving market efficiency by better linking smallholder farmers to markets, encouraging reliable trading relationships and increasing market information. In December 2008 it became mandatory to trade all coffee through the ECX. This paper examines whether Ethiopian coffee prices have become more integrated to world prices after the implementation of the ECX. We follow a multivariate GARCH approach to evaluate the degree of correlation and volatility transmission across international, auction and producer price returns. We focus on the five major Ethiopian coffee varieties using monthly data for the period 1992 through 2013. The estimation results indicate that not all coffee regions have necessarily become more connected to world markets, at least not in the first five years after the implementation of the mandatory regulation. We also do not find a higher integration across regional coffee prices Hernandez, Manuel; Lemma, Solomon; Rashid, Shahidur 2015-12-18 2024-08-01T02:51:29Z 2024-08-01T02:51:29Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150340 en Open Access International Association of Agricultural Economists Hernandez, Manuel A.; Lemma, Solomon; and Rashid, Shahidur. 2015. The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets? Presented at International Association of Agricultural Economists. 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy. https://purl.umn.edu/211732
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The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
title The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
title_full The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
title_fullStr The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
title_full_unstemmed The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
title_short The Ethiopian commodity exchange and the coffee market: Are local prices more integrated to global markets?
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topic commodities
markets
coffee
prices
international trade
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