Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh
This paper assesses the impact of search cost - as proxied by the cost of access to telephones - on small-scale producers' choice between trading with middlemen and trading directly with consumers. The empirical findings suggest that search cost plays a significant role in this choice and that a red...
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| author | Chowdhury, Shyamal |
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| description | This paper assesses the impact of search cost - as proxied by the cost of access to telephones - on small-scale producers' choice between trading with middlemen and trading directly with consumers. The empirical findings suggest that search cost plays a significant role in this choice and that a reduction in search cost increases the likelihood of trading with consumers. This result has important implications related to the provision of public telephones in rural areas of developing countries. -- Author's Abstract |
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| spelling | CGSpace1576232025-04-08T18:33:21Z Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh Chowdhury, Shyamal rural communities costs trade consumers This paper assesses the impact of search cost - as proxied by the cost of access to telephones - on small-scale producers' choice between trading with middlemen and trading directly with consumers. The empirical findings suggest that search cost plays a significant role in this choice and that a reduction in search cost increases the likelihood of trading with consumers. This result has important implications related to the provision of public telephones in rural areas of developing countries. -- Author's Abstract 2004 2024-10-24T12:51:04Z 2024-10-24T12:51:04Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157623 en Limited Access Mohr Siebeck Chowdhury, Shyamal K. 2004. Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160(3): 522-554. https://doi.org/10.1628/0932456041960588 |
| spellingShingle | rural communities costs trade consumers Chowdhury, Shyamal Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title | Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title_full | Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title_fullStr | Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title_short | Search cost and rural producers' trading choice between middlemen and consumers in Bangladesh |
| title_sort | search cost and rural producers trading choice between middlemen and consumers in bangladesh |
| topic | rural communities costs trade consumers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157623 |
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