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Are Fairtrade Prices Fair? An Analysis of the Distribution of Returns in the Swedish Coffee Market
(2015-02)
Consumers pay a premium for Fair Trade coffee, often assuming that it mainly benefits poor
coffee farmers. However, several studies report that most of the premium accrues to actors
in the consumer countries, such as ...
Offshoring and Occupational Wages: Some empirical evidence
(2008-08-05)
Offshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ...
The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure
(2010-01-22)
This paper carries out a critical reappraisal of the two contending theories purporting to
explain long-run government spending: Wagner’s Law and different variants of the ratchet effect. We
analyze data spanning from ...
Competition in the Swedish coffee market, 1978–2002
(Elsevier, 2007)
Are multinationals exploiting their market power in national coffee markets by keeping consumer prices too high and thereby limiting demand for imports of coffee beans? The purpose of this study is to address this issue ...
Gender Policy and Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia
(University of Gothenburg, 2021-07)
In 1995, Colombia signed the first legally binding international treaty that criminalizes all forms of violence against women. After this, the government took a number of steps to improve laws and policies, but progress ...
Inflation Dynamics and Food Prices in an Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ethiopia
(2009-02-23)
Ethiopia has experienced a historically unprecedented increase in inflation, mainly driven by
cereal price inflation, which is among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using monthly data
over the past decade, we estimate ...
Kenya’s Development Path and Factor Prices 1964-2000
(2004)
This study analyses how changes in factor abundance and trade policy have affected factor prices in Kenya since 1964. First there was a period of capital deepening, but this was reversed from 1982. As a result, there has ...
A Dynamic Model of Inflation for Kenya 1974 - 1996
(1998)
This paper develops an error correction model with the aim of analysing the behaviour of prices in Kenya during 1974 -1996. In estimating the model, we first test for cointegration in the money and foreign exchange markets, ...