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Marketing externalities and market development, Volume 1

Author:	Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi. Forhad;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 2839
Country:	Bangladesh;	Date Stored:	2002/05/30
Document Date:	2002/05/31	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	Finance
Region:	South Asia	Report Number:	WPS2839
Sub Sectors:	Other Finance	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Markets and Market Access; Economic Theory & Research; Labor Policies; Health Economics & Finance; Access to Markets
Volume No:	1

Summary: The authors use survey data from Bangladesh to present empirical evidence on externalities at household level sales decisions resulting from increasing returns to marketing. The increasing returns that arise from thick market effects and fixed costs imply that a trader is able to offer higher prices to producers if the marketed surplus is higher in villages. The semi-parametric estimates identify highly nonlinear own and cross commodity externality effects in the sale of farm households. The vegetable markets in villages with low marketable surplus seem to be trapped in segmented local market equilibrium. The analysis points to the coordination failure in farm sale decisions as a plausible explanation for the lack of development of rural markets even after market liberalization policies are implemented.


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