Moving rubber to a better place - and extracting rents from credit constrained farmers along the way
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Keywords
Trader Survey; Market Power; Lerner Index; Marginal Value Products; Indonesia;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
- L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-SEA-2015-09-18 (South East Asia)
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