The Economics of Chocolate

by Squicciarini, Mara P.; Swinnen, Johan

• ISBN13: 9780198833406
• ISBN10: 0198833407
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-05-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mara P. Squicciarini, Post-Doctoral researcher, LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven; Research Fellow, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO),Johan Swinnen, Professor of Economics and Director, LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, KU Leuven

Mara P. Squicciarini is a Senior Economist at the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. She holds a PhD from the University of Leuven and has also been visiting researcher at Stanford University and at the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. Her research has appeared in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics and has been profiled in media outlets such as The Economist, The Globe and Mail, and Freakonomics.

Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven; a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University; and President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists and of The Beeronomics Society. He has published widely on global food security, political economy, institutional reform, trade, global value chains, and product standards. His books include Quality Standards, Value Chains and International Development (CUP, 2015), Political Power and Economic Policy (CUP, 2011), The Economics of Beer (OUP, 2011), and From Marx and Mao to the Market (OUP, 2006).

Table of Contents

1. The Economics of Chocolate: Introduction and Overview, Mara P. Squicciarini and Johan Swinnen
Part I. History
2. A Brief Economic History of Chocolate, Eline Poelmans and Johan Swinnen
3. Chocolate Consumption from the Sixteenth Century to the Great Chocolate Boom, William G. Clarence-Smith
4. From Small Chocolatiers to Multinationals to Sustainable Sourcing: A Historical Review of the Swiss Chocolate Industry, Ingrid Fromm
5. From Pralines to Multinationals: The Economic History of Belgian Chocolates, Maria Garrone, Hannah Pieters, and Johan Swinnen
Part II. Consumption
6. Chocolate Consumption, Manufacturing, and Quality in Europe and North America, Heike C. Alberts and Julie Cidell
7. Nutritional and Health Effects of Chocolate, Stefania Moramarco and Loreto Nemi
8. Health Nudges: How Behavioral Engineering Can Reduce Chocolate Consumption, Sabrina Bruyneel and Siegfried Dewitte
9. Chocolate Brands and Preferences of Chinese Consumers, Di Mo, Scott Rozelle, and Linxiu Zhang
10. Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Fair Trade Chocolate, Pieter Vlaeminck, Jana Vandoren, and Liesbet Vranken
Part III. Governance and Industrial Organization
11. Sustaining Supplies in Smallholder-Dominated Value Chains: Corporate Governance of the Global Cocoa Sector, Niels Fold and Jeff Neilson
12. Beyond Fair Trade: Why are Mainstream Chocolate Companies Pursuing Social and Economic Sustainability in Cocoa Sourcing?, Stephanie Barrientos
13. Policy Reform and Supply Chain Governance: Insights from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ecuador, Sietze Vellema, Anna Laven, Giel Ton, and Sander Muilerman
14. Chocolate Brands' Communication of CSR in Germany, Nina Langen and Monika Hartmann
15. Chocolate Regulations, Giulia Meloni and Johan Swinnen
Part IV. Markets and Prices
16. The Dynamics of the World Cocoa Price, Christopher L. Gilbert
17. Concentration and Price Transmission in the Cocoa-Chocolate Chain, Catherine Araujo Bonjean and Jean-Francois Brun
18. Belgian Chocolate Exports: Quality and Reputation versus Increased Competition, Filip Abraham, Zuzanna Studnicka, and Jan Van Hove
Part V. New Chocolate Markets
19. The Burgeoning Chocolate Market in China, Fan Li and Di Mo
20. Hot Chocolate in the Cold: The Economics and Politics of Chocolate in the Former Soviet Union, Saule Burkitbayeva and Koen Deconinck
21. Too Hot to Handle: The Explosive Growth of Chocolate in India, Emma Janssen and Olivia Riera
22. Back to the Roots: Growth in Cocoa and Chocolate Consumption in Africa, Seneshaw Tamru and Johan Swinnen
Index