Price Dependence between Coffee Qualities: A Copula Model to Evaluate Asymmetric Responses

31 Pages Posted: 6 Jan 2017

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Athanassios Stavrakoudis

University of Ioannina - Department of Economics

Dimitrios Panagiotou

University of Ioannina - Department of Economics

Date Written: January 4, 2017

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to assess the degree and the structure of price dependence between different coffee qualities of the Arabica and Robusta varieties. This is pursued using the statistical tool of copulas and monthly price data for the period 1990:1–2014:12. Our results reveal evidence of asymmetric price dependence between the pairs Brazilian–Robusta, Brazilian–Others and Robusta–Others, since price booms and price crashes are transmitted with different probabilities between these pairs of coffee qualities. For the pairs Brazilian–Colombian, Colombian–Robusta and Colombian–Others there is no evidence of asymmetric price dependence. The empirical findings of this article indicate that the probability that fairtrade coffee producers will see a price crash in the Robusta variety being transmitted to the coffee qualities of the Arabica variety is either zero or much lower than the probability of the transmission of a price boom.

Keywords: Coffee Qualities, Price Dependence, Copula, Fairtrade

JEL Classification: Q13, C14, F15

Suggested Citation

Stavrakoudis, Athanassios and Panagiotou, Dimitrios, Price Dependence between Coffee Qualities: A Copula Model to Evaluate Asymmetric Responses (January 4, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2893885 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2893885

Athanassios Stavrakoudis (Contact Author)

University of Ioannina - Department of Economics ( email )

45110 Ioannina
Greece

HOME PAGE: http://stavrakoudis.econ.uoi.gr

Dimitrios Panagiotou

University of Ioannina - Department of Economics ( email )

Campus Psathaki
Ioannina, Epirus 48100
Greece

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