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Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with West Bengal Potato Farmers

Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Maximo Torero and Sujata Visaria

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Abstract: A study middleman margins, trading mechanisms and the role of asymmetric information about prices between potato farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal, India is conducted. Farmers in randomly chosen villages were provided daily information on prices in neighboring wholesale markets where the traders re-sell the potatoes. [BREAD Working Paper No. 401].

Keywords: India; potato farmers; local trade intermediaries; West Bengal; prices; villages; traders; transport; storage costs; markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10
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