Farmers’ Bargaining Power and Input Prices: What Can We Learn from Self-Reported Assessments? 1

Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska and Jan Falkowski
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Agata Malak-Rawlikowska: Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland

Social Sciences, 2019, vol. 8, issue 2, 1-13

Abstract: One of the key challenges in improving our understanding of farmers’ relations with input suppliers is that we do not have direct information about farmers’ bargaining power vis-à-vis their input providers. To overcome this problem, this study used farmers’ self-reported assessments of their position in the supply chain. Using unique micro-survey data from the dairy sector in Poland, we constructed a proxy of farmers’ bargaining power and showed that it helps to explain discounts at which farmers buy feed from input suppliers, in addition to what is explained by the standard variables.

Keywords: farmers’ self-reported bargaining power; input suppliers; price relations; dairy sector; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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