Is Knowledge Power? Competition and Information in Agricultural Markets
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Keywords
Development; Agriculture; Information; Middlemen;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2014-09-08 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-COM-2014-09-08 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EXP-2014-09-08 (Experimental Economics)
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