Ha, Dang ThanhShively, Gerald E.2016-04-192016-04-192007Review of Development Economics 12(2): 312–3261467-9361http://hdl.handle.net/10919/67085Metadata only recordThis paper studies the recent boom and bust in Vietnam's coffee economy. Data from smallholder coffee farms in the Central Highlands are used to examine responses to a drop in producer coffee prices. A multinomial logistic regression model is used to identify several factors associated with four specific patterns observed among coffee farmers: no response to price change, reductions in use of purchased inputs, changes in crop mix, and responses aimed at enhancing liquidity through off-farm work or borrowing. Patterns of response are shown to have differed systematically across sub-groups of smallholders. Policy implications raised by the findings are discussed.text/plainen-USIn CopyrightCash cropsLocal marketsWorld marketsTropical zonesSmall-scale farmingEconomic modeling and analysisTree cropsAsiaVietnamAgricultural developmentCoffeeSmallholdersFarm/Enterprise Scale GovernanceAbstractCopyright 2007 by The Authors. All rights reservedhttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00391.x