Market Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Social Capital in the Ethiopian Grain Market:

By E. Gabre-Madhin. 2001

333 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Finance, Soil Science

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In Accounting

1. Marcel Fafchamps
2. B. Minten
3. E. Gabre-Madhin
4. P. Hazell
5. B. Shiferaw
6. G. Muricho
7. G. Obare
8. Tanguy Bernard

In Finance

1. P. Hazell
2. B. Shiferaw
3. G. Muricho
4. G. Obare
5. Tanguy Bernard
6. Marcel Fafchamps

In Soil Science

1. Mekbib G. Haile
2. T. Jayne
3. B. Shiferaw
4. M. Jaleta
5. A. Alene
6. Marcel Fafchamps
7. P. Hazell
8. Tanguy Bernard

Citations in the corpus

• Determinants of smallholder farmers' participation in banana markets in Central Africa: the role of transaction costs (2010, background): “This variable not only reflects the accumulation of expertise in farming but is also linked to repeated transactions which in turn reinforces trust and builds networks that a household needs to facilitate market information exchange (Gabre-Madhin, 2001; Putnam, 1995).”
• IS THERE A FUTURE FOR SMALL FARMS (2005, background): “Public policy can help ensure improved market access for small farmers by putting in place institutions to deliver finance, reduce risks, build social capital of producers and traders, transmit market information, grade and certify goods, and enforce contracts (Gabre-Madhin, 2001).”
• Rural market imperfections and the role of institutions in collective action to improve markets for the poor (2008, background): “These costs undermine the exchange process (Kranton, 1996; Gabre-Madhin, 2001) leading to atomized rural markets with few rural–urban linkages (Chowdhury et al. , 2005).”
• False Promise or False Premise? The Experience of Food and Input Market Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa (2002, background): “…information, weak provision of seasonal finance for purchased farm inputs, and contract enforcement problems, to name a few (Barrett, 1997; Barrett & Carter, 1999; Dercon, 2001; Gabre-Madhin, 2001; Kydd & Dorward, 2001; Minten & Kyle, 1999; Shaffer, Weber, Riley, & Staatz, 1985; Schmid, 1992).”
• Increasing Returns and Market Efficiency in Agricultural Trade (2005, background): “A more detailed description of traders in Benin and Malawi can be found in Gabre-Madhin et al. (2001) and Fafchamps & Gabre-Madhin (2001).”
• Impacts of extension access and cooperative membership on technology adoption and household welfare (2017, background): “Rural producer organizations and cooperatives have long been studied in relation to transaction costs and collective action problems (Gabre-Madhin, 2001; Shiferaw et al.,2008; Bernard, 2009; Bernard and Taffesse, 2012; Ragasa and Golan, 2014), with particular interest in its application in…”
• Impact of cooperatives on smallholders' commercialization behavior: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “Cereals in turn capture 75% of cropped land and 69% of crop production.17 Finally, 98% of grains produced in Ethiopia are produced by smallholders (Gabre-Madhin, 2001).”
• Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “…on prices and technologies, absence of social connections to established chain actors, weak input and output markets, and credit constraints often make it difficult for smallholder farmers and other chain actors to take advantage of market opportunities (Kydd 2002; Kranton 1996; Gabre-Madhin 2001).”
• Smallholder commercialization: processes, determinants and impact (2009, background): “A case in point is the set of informal institutions used in setting grades and standards for commodities in the Ethiopian grain markets through the use of brokers and other market intermediaries (Gabre-Madhin 2001).”