Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market:
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Titel: Market institutions, transaction costs, and social capital in the Ethiopian grain market
Autor: Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.
Jahr: 2001
Contents
Tables v
Figures vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Summary xiii
1. Introduction 1
2. The Ethiopian Grain Economy 6
3. Traders'Market Behavior 18
4. The Middlemen of the Middlemen: The Institution of Brokers 36
5. Rules and Norms Underlying Relations between Traders and Brokers 45
6. Transaction Costs and Social Capital 51
7. Traders' Use of Brokers to Reduce Transaction Costs 61
8. Brokerage and Equilibrium Search Behavior 71
9. Conclusions and Policy Implications for Improving Market Performance 82
References 89
Tables
2.1 Monthly real prices before and after market reform 7
2.2 Monthly marketing spreads before and after market reform 8
2.3 Short-run integration of markets after reform 9
2.4 Production and marketable surplus of grains, 1995/96 9
2.5 Monthly grain requirements of major urban centers, 1992 12
3.1 Demographic characteristics of traders, 1996 20
3.2 Human capital of traders, 1996 21
3.3 Business characteristics of traders, 1996 22
3.4 Business assets of traders, 1996 23
3.5 Firm resources: Physical, human, and financial, 1996 24
3.6 Attributes of last transaction by type of market, 1996 27
3.7 Absolute marketing margins and costs by type of market, 1996 29
3.8 Marketing costs and net profits relative to sale price by market, 1996 30
3.9 Annual sales and gross profits by type of market, 1996 31
3.10 Breakdown of marketing costs by type of market, 1996 32
4.1 Comparison of brokers and traders, 1996 38
4.2 Brokers' operations, 1996 39
4.3 Price discovery by brokers, 1996 41
4.4 Wholesale grain prices in the Addis Ababa market, December 1996 42
4.5 Traders' rationale for choice of brokers' services, 1996 43
5.1 Brokers'relations with trader clients, 1996 46
5.2 Traders' relations with brokers, 1996 47
5.3 Openness and conflict between brokers and traders, 1996 48
6.1 Search time and search costs per transaction, 19% 52
6.2 Search labor by region, 1996 52
6.3 Traders' sources and use of credit, 1996 53
6.4 Access to formal credit by region, 1996 53
6.5 Traders' access to informal and supplier credit by region, 1996 54
6.6 Social capital of traders, 1996 55
6.7 Correlation coefficients for instruments for search labor
and working capital 56
6.8 Variables used in estimation of transaction revenue 57
6.9 Results of instrumental variables estimation of
transaction revenue 57
6.10 Annualized transaction costs and physical transfer costs, 19% 59
7.1 Long-distance trade and use of brokers by type of market, 19% 65
7.2 Tobit estimation of the percentages of long-distance trade, 19% 67
vi TABLES
7.3 Tobit estimation of the shares of broker use for distant trade 68
8.1 Optimal search intensities under four search models 74
8.2 Welfare from brokerage, search efficiency, and search costs, 1996 80
8.3 Summary of optimal search intensities and welfare effects of four
search models 81
Figures
2.1 Administrative regions and zones of Ethiopia 10
2.2 Seasonality in grain prices 11
2.3 Market structure and flows, 1995/96 15
3.1 Grain flows and distances between study markets, 1995/96 25
6.1 Opportunity costs of search labor across trader sample, 1996 58
6.2 Opportunity costs of working capital across trader sample, 1996 58
7.1 Brokerage use by type of market and type of transaction, 1996 62
7.2 Use of brokerage for purchases by region, 1996 63
7.3 Use of brokerage for sales by region, 1996 64
8.1 Comparison of sellers' search intensities, homogeneous versus
heterogeneous sellers, 19% 76
8.2 Comparison of buyers' search intensities, homogeneous versus
heterogeneous buyers, 1996 76
8.3 Sellers' and buyers' surplus under competitive equilibrium,
without brokerage, 1996 77
8.4 Sellers' search behavior, without brokerage, in competitive and
joint welfare models, 1996 77
8.5 Buyers' search behavior, without brokerage, in competitive and
joint welfare models, 19% 78
8.6 Brokers' effect on sellers' search intensity under competitive
equilibrium, 1996 78
8.7 Brokers' effect on buyers' search intensity under competitive
equilibrium, 1996 79
8.8 Effect of brokers on sellers' surplus, 19% 79
8.9 Effect of brokers on buyers' surplus, 19% 80
8.10 Sellers' search behavior in competitive and joint welfare models, 19% 81
8.11 Buyers' search behavior in competitive and joint welfare models, 19% 81 |
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