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Special Lectures on Middlemen and Vertical Supply Chains
We are pleased to have Professor Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University) deliver a series of 3 lectures on "Middlemen and Vertical Supply Chains." The lectures will cover issues concerning IO, trade, development, and policy interventions and are organized by the Department of Economics. Please register your ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2018/mookherjee-special-lectures-on-middlemen-and-vertical-supply-chains
What Explains the Continuous Increase of Total Agricultural Output in China?
Key insights IEMS Researcher Ma Xiang (HKUST) examines private innovation in China’s agricultural sector. In his Academic Seminar, he examined the growth in agricultural output since China liberalized its seed industry in 2000, opening the industry to new entrants.  Where previously the seed industry ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2017/what-explains-the-continuous-increase-of-total-agricultural-output-in-china-
The Equity Impacts of Targeted Smallholder Agricultural Credit
We examine the distributive impacts of two alternative approaches to deliver agricultural credit to smallholders: TRAIL (or trader-agent intermediated lending), where local traders recommend village residents for individual liability micro-leans, and GBL (or group-based lending), where households self-select into ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/maitra-equity-impacts-of-targeted-smallholder-agricultural-credit
Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers
In the Indian state of West Bengal, potato farmers sell to local middlemen because they lack direct access to wholesale markets. In high-frequency farmer marketing surveys we find that farmers are poorly informed about wholesale and retail prices, and there is a large gap between wholesale and farmgate prices. To test ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/asymmetric-information-and-middleman-margins
Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
Event Summary This seminar discusses traditional vs. non-traditional micro-credit delivery schemes in India, and specifically around Prof Visaria’s field experiments on an alternative delivery method which resulted in significant boosts to the incomes of the rural poor. Contrary to traditional ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2014/sujata-visaria-smallholder-agriculture-agent-intermediated-microloans
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