@article{Blake:309949,
      recid = {309949},
      author = {Blake, Daniella  and Dawson, Carolina  and Loeillet, Denis  and Staver, Charles},
      title = {Can Global Climate Change affect Prices in the  World  Banana Market?},
      journal = {German Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2018-03-01},
      number = {670-2021-575},
      month = {Mar},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This paper explores the potential impacts of extreme  weather events associated with climate change on prices in  the international banana market. First, we made an  inventory of the events reported to have affected banana  export volumes for six exporter countries, as well as  events reported to have affected banana import prices in  the French market, between the years 2000 to 2015. We used  weekly time-series to examine the impact of reported events  on banana export volumes and on banana import prices. The  first results indicate that weather events were the most  frequently reported events to impact on export volumes and  on consumer demand, thus confirming that they play a  frequent role in determining prices. However, we also  identified a wide range of other non-weather events which  affect volumes, consumer demand and thus prices. We  demonstrated that the extent to which extreme weather  events affect prices is primarily determined by the  coincidence of events and by the structural context of the  exporting and importing countries. This study helps to put  the potential impact of weather events related to climate  change into perspective and highlights the ongoing role of  market mechanisms, policy makers and stakeholders’  strategies in price variations in international commodity  markets.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/309949},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.309949},
}