scholarly journals Repurchase Options in the Market for Lemons

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saki Bigio ◽  
Liyan Shi
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Author(s):  
Banawe Plambou Anissa ◽  
Gashaw Abate ◽  
Tanguy Bernard ◽  
Erwin Bulte

Abstract Bulking and mixing of smallholder supply dilutes incentives to supply high quality. We introduce wheat ‘grading and certification shops’ in Ethiopia and use an auction design to gauge willingness-to-pay (WTP) for certification. Bids correlate positively with wheat quality, and ex ante notification of the opportunity of certification improves wheat quality. These findings suggest that local wheat markets resemble a ‘market for lemons’, crippled by asymmetric information. However, aggregate WTP for grading and certification services does not re-coup the sum of fixed, flow and variable costs associated with running a single certification shop.









2014 ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Jay Bhattacharya ◽  
Timothy Hyde ◽  
Peter Tu




2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-323
Author(s):  
Heng Liu
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Econometrica ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 1433-1504 ◽  
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