کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
992334 935748 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Small Farmers and Big Retail: Trade-offs of Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Small Farmers and Big Retail: Trade-offs of Supplying Supermarkets in Nicaragua
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryIn Nicaragua and elsewhere in Central America, small-scale farmers are weighing the risks of entering into contracts with supermarket chains. We use unique data from cooperatives supplying supermarkets to study the effect of supply agreements on producers’ mean output prices and price stability. We find that prices paid by the domestic retail chain approximate the traditional market in mean and variance while mean prices paid by Walmart are significantly lower than the traditional market. However, the Walmart contract is found to systematically reduce price volatility. We find some evidence, however, that farmers may be paying too much for this contractual insurance against price variation.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 40, Issue 2, February 2012, Pages 342–354
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