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| Title: | | Performing comparative advantage: The case of the global coffee business  |
| Authors: | | Andriani, Pierpaolo Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper series // Frankfurt School of Finance & Management 167 |
| Abstract: | | We posit that comparative advantage is discovered via alternative transactional regimes of trading. Transactional regimes are performative, based on different forms of embedded agency. The theory is applied on a study of Brazilian coffee business which manifests the increasing importance of specialty coffee. Innovations in the transactional regime have created new forms of agency which triggered new ways to produce coffee and to activate the hidden potential of variety in consumer tastes. Comparative advantage, though still driven by endowments with natural resources, relates with very different product characteristics and forms of market organization. This constitutes the performativity of comparative advantage. |
| Subjects: | | comparative advantage trading transactional regimes performativity coffee |
| JEL: | | B52 F10 F14 O10 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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