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How Does Market Access Affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2014

improved market access on production per hectare and the underlying smallholder’s decisions on production and cultivated area …

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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2012

reduction in transaction costs and improved market access on yield and underlying smallholder's decisions on production and area …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326236

How does Market Access for Smallholders affect Export Supply? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2016

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi’s major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

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Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs : How Does Domestic Trade by Rail Affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

Zant, Wouter - 2022

January 2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at Rivirivi, Balaka. Estimations are based on monthly market prices …-2006. Market-pairs connected by rail when the railway line was operational, are intervention observations. Railway transport …

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Trains, Trade and Transaction Costs: How does Domestic Trade by Rail affect Market Prices of Malawi Agricultural Commodities?

Zant, Wouter - 2015

2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at Rivirivi, Balaka. Market pairs connected by rail when the railway line … was operational, are intervention observations. Estimations are based on monthly market prices of four agricultural …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288402

Bridges

Zant, Wouter - 2017

)introduction of the bridges, are conditioned on spatial price equilibrium with market integration. Bridges explain a reduction of …

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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?

Zant, Wouter - 2012

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical...

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Impact of Mobile Phones on Staple Food Markets in Mozambique: Improved Arbitrage or Increased Rent Extraction?

Zant, Wouter - 2017

I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...

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Mobile Phones and Mozambique Traders: What is the Size of Reduced Search Costs and Who Benefits?

Zant, Wouter - 2019

costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of … transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices. The mobile phone rollout explains a 10%-13% reduction in maize price … component of total transport costs. Benefits of increased market efficiency are biased towards consumer markets. Results are …

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Mobile Phones and Mozambique Farmers: Less Asymmetric Information and More Trader Competition?

Zant, Wouter - 2018

what extent the introduction of mobile phones has affected the margin between recorded maize producer and retail market … producer and retail market prices of white maize grain, from July 1997 to December 2009, for 15 major producer markets in … producer and market prices independently vary, but confirm the margin results. Estimation results are robust for non …

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