| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP11548 |
| DP11548 Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers | |
| Dilip Mookherjee; Maximo Torero; Sandip Mitra; Sujata Visaria | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-09-30 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In the Indian state of West Bengal, potato farmers sell to local middlemen be- cause they lack direct access to wholesale markets. High-frequency marketing surveys reveal large middleman margins and negligible pass-through from wholesale to farm- gate prices. Farmers are uninformed about downstream wholesale and retail prices. To test alternative models of farmer-middlemen trades, we conduct a field experi- ment where farmers in randomly chosen villages are provided with wholesale price information. Information had negligible average effects on farmgate sales and rev- enues, but increased pass-through from wholesale to farmgate prices. These results are consistent with a model of ex post bargaining between farmers and village mid- dlemen where farmers also have the option of selling to other middlemen outside the village. They are inconsistent with models of risk-sharing contracts between middle- men and farmers, standard oligopolistic models of pass-through or search frictions. |
| 主题 | Development Economics ; Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Middlemen Pass-through Price information Cellphones Supply chains |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11548 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540362 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Dilip Mookherjee,Maximo Torero,Sandip Mitra,et al. DP11548 Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers. 2016. |
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