@article{dad59565e02740f68015b3eaab1f9406,
title = "Mobile phones and market information: Evidence from rural Cambodia",
abstract = "Local agricultural markets in developing countries are often characterised as oligopsonistic markets, forcing famers to sell their products below the wholesale price. However, this situation appears to be changing with the diffusion of mobile phones. We investigate how access to market information through mobile phone use affects the selling price of rice in Cambodia. We differentiate the use of mobile phones to obtain market information from household mobile phone ownership. Our results indicate that improved access to market information through mobile phone use is associated with an increase in the selling price of rice.",
keywords = "Agricultural markets, Market information, Mobile phone",
author = "Daichi Shimamoto and Hiroyuki Yamada and Martin Gummert",
note = "Funding Information: This study was implemented as part of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI){\textquoteright}s post-harvest project in Cambodia. The authors would like to thank IRRI for providing us with the opportunity to conduct this study, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for financial support (Grant numbers 13J06393 and 25101003 ). The authors are also grateful to two anonymous referees, Tsunehiro Otsuki, Fumio Ohtake, Masaru Sasaki, Yasuyuki Todo, Ryosuke Okazawa and the participants at 2014 Asian Meeting of the Econometrics Society, Japan Association of Political Economy and the seminars at Osaka University for their helpful comments and discussions, and Meas Pyseth, Rica Joy Flor, and Vichet Sorn for their help in collecting data. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this article are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of their affiliations. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 .",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.10.005",
language = "English",
volume = "57",
pages = "135--141",
journal = "Food Policy",
issn = "0306-9192",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}