Price Transmission and Trader Entry in Domestic Commodity Markets

By Marcel Fafchamps, Ruth Vargas Hill. Economic development and cultural change, 2008

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Impact of SMS-Based Agricultural Information on Indian Farmers (2012, background): “There is a voluminous literature documenting the apparent ignorance of price movements by small farmers in the developing world (see Fafchamps and Hill, 2008, for a recent example).”
Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2020, background): “, 2009; Fafchamps and Hill, 2008). Moreover, interpretation of this observational evidence is confounded by common shocks such as shared harvest times and reverse flows across seasons.1 One exception to this primarily observational literature is a concurrent paper by Casaburi and Reed (2016), which ”
Farmer Bargaining Power and Market Information Services (2015, unknown): “Many farmers opt for trader pick-up, despite the fact that traders may take advantage of a farmer's ignorance of the market price, seeking to extract a rent from them by o ering very low prices for their products (Fafchamps and Hill, 2008; Mérel, Sexton, and Suzuki, 2009).”