| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w29221 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 29221 |
| Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon | |
| Viva Ona Bartkus; Wyatt Brooks; Joseph P. Kaboski; Carolyn E. Pelnik | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-09-13 |
| 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 and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w29221 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586895 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Viva Ona Bartkus,Wyatt Brooks,Joseph P. Kaboski,et al. Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon. 2021. |
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| w29221.pdf（633KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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