Piggy-Back Exporting, Intermediation, and the Distributional Gains from Trade in Agricultural Markets

Swati Dhingra

No 712, 2016 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: Abstract. This paper investigates the distributional gains from changes in agricultural world prices in developing economies. Agricultural markets in developing countries are rarely perfectly competitive. The market structure is characterized by a large number of small farmers who typically sell their produce to one or few big companies with significant monopsony or oligopsony power. We provide a flexible theoretical framework that captures this market structure and allow us to investigate how international trade affects the incomes of small farmers, agribusiness and intermediaries in developing countries.

Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-int and nep-sog
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