Marketing Externalities andMarket Development

Emran, M. Shahe ; Shilpi. Forhad

World Bank, Washington, D.C.

关键词: MARKETING;    HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS;    FIXED COSTS;    FARMERS;    MARKET LIBERALIZATION;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2839
RP-ID  :  WPS2839

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The authors use survey data fromBangladesh to present empirical evidence on externalities athousehold level sales decisions resulting from increasingreturns to marketing. The increasing returns that arise fromthick market effects and fixed costs imply that a trader isable to offer higher prices to producers if the marketedsurplus is higher in villages. The semi-parametric estimatesidentify highly nonlinear own and cross commodityexternality effects in the sale of farm households. Thevegetable markets in villages with low marketable surplusseem to be trapped in segmented local market equilibrium.The analysis points to the coordination failure in farm saledecisions as a plausible explanation for the lack ofdevelopment of rural markets even after marketliberalization policies are implemented.