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Market Structure, Vertical Integration and Farmers’ Welfare in the Costa Rica Coffee Industry

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  • Fabrizio Leone
  • Rocco Macchiavello
  • Josepa Miquel-Florensa
  • Nicola Pavanini

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Widespread market imperfections in agricultural value chains raise the possibility that regulatory interventions may enhance efficiency and farmers’ welfare. We develop a structural model of agricultural value chains and estimate it using rich data from Costa Rica’s coffee sector to evaluate common regulations. Farmers supply differentiated mills that strategically decide which rural markets to source from and bilaterally bargain prices with downstream exporters. Through counterfactuals, our analysis highlights the nuanced, and potentially counter-productive, effects of commonly observed pro-competitive regulations on farmers’ welfare. Tightening revenue-sharing rules to increase farm-gate prices, increases farmers’ welfare on average but makes many worse off. Similarly, banning vertical integration raises farm-gate prices but harms most farmers by lowering valuable services provided by integrated mills.

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  • Fabrizio Leone & Rocco Macchiavello & Josepa Miquel-Florensa & Nicola Pavanini, 2025. "Market Structure, Vertical Integration and Farmers’ Welfare in the Costa Rica Coffee Industry," CESifo Working Paper Series 11776, CESifo.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11776
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    Keywords

    agricultural chains; market structure; farmers’ welfare;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
    • L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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