Are Agricultural Traders Colluding? Experimental Evidence on Competition in Kenyan Maize Markets: Guest Post by Lauren Falcao Bergquist

Smallholder farmers are better off with higher crop prices, but consumers want lower prices. So what is a policymaker to do?
A case study of #Kenya‘s maize markets offers some solutions: http://wrld.bg/O5xU306E0jU

Are Agricultural Traders Colluding? Experimental Evidence on Competition in Kenyan Maize Markets: Guest Post by Lauren Falcao Bergquist

This is the second in our series of posts by Ph.D. students on the job market this year Setting food-price policy is hard. Smallholder farmers are better off with higher crop prices, but consumers want lower prices. So what is a policymaker to do? Well-integrated agricultural markets can tackle both…