Abstract
dc:descriptionCocoa is a vital export commodity to the Ivory Coast. Cocoa revenues have recently started a declining trend, following a similar pattern in prices. Because of these circumstances, this study proposes to the Ivory Coast a set of export strategies in non-competitive and non-cooperative market settings, using policy actions such as taxation, hedging, coalition formation, reservation pricing and scheduled marketings. One can typify the cocoa market as an interfacing of oligopolistic exporters and oligopsonistic importers, thus the market equations needed to find spatial equilibrium solutions are not only the export supply and import demand equations, but also marginal export revenue and marginal import cost functions to account for non-competitive behavior. In this latter case, retaliations might lead to indeterminate solutions, and game theoretical reasoning is used to suggest stable market outcomes.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Agricultural Economics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gbetibouo, Mathurin
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8324554
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69853