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Abstract
Cocoa prices are known to be volatile and this volatility has been known to affect the cocoa industry. This
paper first examines the volatility of the international cocoa price and compares this volatility to the
international price of coffee. The measure of volatility that is used is the moving standard deviation. The
paper then measures the volatility of the export price of cocoa from Trinidad and Tobago and concludes
by discussing how price volatility affects the marketing of tropical commodities like cocoa.