Marketing Externalities and Market Development

32 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Forhad Shilpi

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

M. Shahe Emran

George Washington University - Department of Economics

Date Written: April 26, 2002

Abstract

Emran and Shilpi use survey data from Bangladesh to present empirical evidence on externalities at household level sales decisions resulting from increasing returns to marketing. The increasing returns that arise from thick market effects and fixed costs imply that a trader is able to offer higher prices to producers if the marketed surplus is higher in villages. The semi-parametric estimates identify highly nonlinear own and cross commodity externality effects in the sale of farm households. The vegetable markets in villages with low marketable surplus seem to be trapped in segmented local market equilibrium. The analysis points to the coordination failure in farm sale decisions as a plausible explanation for the lack of development of rural markets even after market liberalization policies are implemented.

This paper - a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the process of development of rural markets.

Suggested Citation

Shilpi, Forhad and Emran, M. Shahe, Marketing Externalities and Market Development (April 26, 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=636186

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