Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; Torero, Maximo; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
A study middleman margins, trading mechanisms and the role of asymmetric information about prices between potato … farmers and local trade intermediaries, in West Bengal, India is conducted. Farmers in randomly chosen villages were provided … daily information on prices in neighboring wholesale markets where the traders re-sell the potatoes. [BREAD Working Paper No …