We investigate the market microstructure of the wholesale markets for rice in India. We propose a general method of splitting the wholesale bid-ask spread into its three constituent components: the order processing costs, the adverse information costs and the inventory holding costs. The bid-ask...

To achieve its strategic objective of food security, the Government of India (GOI) maintains an elaborate set of food grain policies which include public procurement and price support operations, price stabilisation through buffer stocks, public food grain distribution, and extensive controls on...