Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins : An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers

West Bengal potato farmers cannot directly access wholesale markets and do not knowwholesale prices. Local middlemen earn large margins; pass-through from wholesale to farmgate prices is negligible. When we informed farmers in randomly chosen villages about wholesale prices, average farmgate sales a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mitra, Sandip, Mookherjee, Dilip, Torero, Maximo, Visaria, Sujata
Format: Journal Article
Published: The MIT Press 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29657