Where to Sell the Next Cappuccino? Income Per Capita and Coffee Consumption

10 Pages Posted: 9 Feb 2007 Last revised: 2 Sep 2011

Date Written: September 1, 2011

Abstract

This paper estimates the world demand for coffee using a dataset for 88 countries from 1990 to 2005, and dynamic panel data estimators. Results suggest that the income elasticity of demand is non constant and varies according to a country’s income level. Higher income countries have lower income elasticities than middle and low income ones. Differences in price elasticities are not significant across income groups.

Keywords: Coffee, Demand, Income, Price, Elasticity

JEL Classification: O13, Q11, C23

Suggested Citation

Galindo, Arturo José, Where to Sell the Next Cappuccino? Income Per Capita and Coffee Consumption (September 1, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=962352 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.962352

Arturo José Galindo (Contact Author)

Inter-American Development Bank ( email )

1300 New York Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20577
United States

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