@article{Assefa:210964,
      recid = {210964},
      author = {Assefa, Thomas and Minten, Bart J.},
      title = {Can agricultural traders be trusted?  Evidence from  Ethiopia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80140},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Traditional food marketing systems in developing countries  are presumed to suffer from a
number of deficiencies.  Policy makers therefore often try to regulate them and  modern
private market arrangements are increasingly  emerging to help deal with some of the
deficiencies.  However, it is unclear if and to what extent regulation and  modernization
affects governance of these markets. We look  in this paper at the case of coffee in urban
markets in  Ethiopia. We find no significant cheating with weights but  there is illegal
trade, with significant non-allowed trade  of export quality coffee in local markets, and a
consistent  pattern of mis-representation of not easily verifiable  quality characteristics.
We further find that modernizing  marketing formats, including modern retail, and
branded and  packaged products, deliver higher quality (at a high price)  but they are not
more trustworthy than traditional ones  along these three dimensions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210964},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210964},
}