Fair Trade

被引：5

作者：

Richardson, Martin ^{[1
]}

Staehler, Frank ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Australian Natl Univ, Coll Business & Econ, Res Sch Econ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

[2] Univ Tubingen, Dept Econ, Tubingen, Germany

[3] Univ Tubingen, CESifo, Tubingen, Germany

来源：

ECONOMIC RECORD | 2014年 / 90卷 / 291期

关键词：

PUBLIC-GOODS; COMPETITION; MARKETS;

D O I：

10.1111/1475-4932.12136

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

This paper analyses a setting in which a vertically integrated fair-trade firm competes against vertically disintegrated, profit-maximising oligopolists. Consumers of the fair-trade product derive a warm glow' that depends on the wage paid to fair-trade producers; the firm returns all surplus to its farmers. Trade integration will unambiguously increase the size of the fair-trade firm, but the relative size compared to oligopolists may shrink. Furthermore, we show that the warm glow' effect may support a marginal expansion of the volume of fair trade, but for rather perverse reasons.

引用

页码：447 / 461

页数：15

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