Returns to Social Network Capital Among Traders

By Marcel Fafchamps, B. Minten. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Networks and Credit Access in Indonesia (2004, background): “We should note that we do not find a negative and significant effect of family networks on access to credit, and hence do not find any evidence that family networks may hinder an individual’s access to credit by diluting borrower’s incentives as discussed in Fafchamps and Minten (2002).”
Imperfect Competition in Agricultural Markets: evidence from Ethiopia (2005, background): “4 Other studies of agricultural markets include Fafchamps and Minten (2002), which examines the role of social network capital for traders in Madagascar, and Gabre-Medhin (1999a, 1999b), who examines the role of brokers in reducing transactions costs in Ethiopia.”
Spatial integration at multiple scales: rice markets in Madagascar (2009, unknown): “Social networks are an important resource for Malagasy traders, and personal relationships with other traders and lenders have a positive effect on efficiency (Fafchamps and Minten 2002).”
Institutional ecological economics (2005, background): “For example, social capital is largely a private productive asset for agricultural traders (Fafchamps and Minten, 2002).”
Social Capital, Human Capital and the Community Mechanism: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Economists (2009, background): “, 1994; Bardhan, 1993; Baland and Platteau, 1996), and the enforcement of business contracts by means of the cooperation/ ostracism mechanism (Binswanger and Rosenzweig, 1986; Jagannathan, 1987; Hayami and Kawagoe, 1993; Hoff et al., 1993; Fafchamps and Minten, 2002; Greif, 2006).”
Exploring double side-selling in cooperatives, case study of four coffee cooperatives in Rwanda (2013, methodology): “Family relationships were also used as an indicator of social capital by Fafchamps and Minten (2002) in a study of returns of social capital to trade in Madagascar.”
Social Capital and Farmers' Willingness to Adopt Countryside Stewardship Schemes (2003, unknown): “In certain cases, social capital facilitates the accomplishment of specific goals such as trade (Fafchamps and Minten, 2002).”
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal (2016, background): “Trade performance is strongly determined by social capital in the form of trade network (Fafchamps and Minten, 2002), and arguably Lama has benefited as successful trader from the strong network which they have historically built and maintained (see also Nagoda and Eriksen, 2014).”
Nexus between social capital and performance of micro and small firms in an emerging economy: The mediating role of innovation (2017, background): “…speed of work from various actors within the firm, which directly or indirectly enhances the performance of MSBs. Social capital improves the performance of MSBs by enhancing the cost reduction of transactions, which eventually generates better efficiency results (Fafchamps & Minten, 2002).”
Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, background): “Empirical evidence on the role of networks in enforcing contracts is provided, for instance, by Fafchamps and Minten (1999) and Fafchamps and Minten (2002).”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “The private and public aspects of social capital have been studied in many empirical analyses (e.g., Narayan and Pritchett 1999; Fafchamps and Minten 2002) of resource-dependent societies.”