| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP16487 |
| DP16487 Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon | |
| Joseph Kaboski; Wyatt Brooks; Viva Bartkus; Carolyn Pelnik | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-08-27 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a cooperative intervention which organizes together poor fishing communities in the Amazon --- one of the poorest and most remote regions of the world --- to purchase large boats in order to partially bypass middlemen and deliver their fish directly to market. We find that the intervention increases income by 27%, largely through an increase in price received, and also increases consumption. Moreover, the intervention is highly cost effective with the projected stream of income gains easily covering the cost of the investment. Finally, we formalize a model in which the market power of middlemen itself can create a poverty trap, which can be eliminated with cooperative investment. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Poverty trap Monopsony Collective investment Rural development |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16487 |
| 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/545443 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joseph Kaboski,Wyatt Brooks,Viva Bartkus,et al. DP16487 Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon. 2021. |
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