Abstract In this article, I first examine the ways Moroccan smallholder farmers deploy mobile phones to revise their relationships with markets and roving middlemen. Second, based on a mixed method of participant observation survey data, claim that phone use has transformed farmers’ economic behaviour, resulting in deeper market participation gradual undoing role middlemen agricultural value ch...

Abstract Analysis of the value chain begins with raw materials and finishes a product that is ready for commercialization. The objective this article review to determine how analysis (value chain) used corn commodities in Indonesia. In chain, farmers, middlemen, inter-island traders, feed industry, breeders are considered stakeholders. After has undergone drying process been converted into feed...

This paper presents a general equilibrium model in which middlemen emerge to facilitate trade in an environment of idiosyncratic tastes and heterogeneous goods. The gains to the traders can be measured along three dimensions: the rate of production, the time preference losses generated by the matching process, and the quality of the match between consumers’ preferences and the goods they ultima...

In this paper we discuss possible market mechanisms for the GRID. We propose a complete dynamic model of a GRID market with providers, middlemen and users. Using a multi-agent simulation of the proposed model, we present preliminary results of the price volatility of abstract units in the GRID market.

This article aims to examine the pattern of relationships that occur between cigarette companies, middlemen and tobacco farmers in context political economy. General facts show price aspect is point where are structurally dependent on companies middlemen. examined detail with construction core-periphery principle Descriptive approach supported by literature study analyzed content analysis appro...

a borrowing limit—and find that when the model must match the observed distribution of the growth rate of the output of individual firms, the contribution of market imperfections to TFP is rather small. In “Middlemen in Limit-Order Markets,” Jovanovic and Menkveld analyze the role of middlemen in asset markets who are assumed to have superior information and, hence, potentially improve the allo...