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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Middlemen"”.
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Three Essays on Middlemen in Intermediated Markets
… three essays on theoretical analysis of middlemen in intermediated markets. Chapter 1 gives a brief survey on the market intermediation literature and also briefly describes the subsequent chapters. In Chapter 2 I study the role of horizontally differentiated middlemen in a bilateral …
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Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York
The American Revolution was revolutionizing for multiple reasons, and the changes in intercultural relations between the British Army, imperial and provincial leadership, and the Iroquois were some of them. The colonial go-between who had mediated exchanges between these two groups since contact …
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Strengthening informal supply chains : the case of recycling in Bandung, Indonesia
… informal recycling sector as waste pickers and middlemen. The informal recycling supply chain begins with waste pickers that collect waste materials from homes, businesses, streets, waste transfer sites, and landfills. These materials are then sold through a series of middlemen before reaching …
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Penentuan harga gabah oleh tengkulak perspektif Inpres no. 3 tahun 2012 tentang kebijakan pengadaan gabah dan hukum Islam: Studi kasus di Desa Sumbersari, Kecamatan Megaluh, Kabupaten Jombang
… the price of unhulled rice determined by middlemen in Sumbersari village, Megaluh subdistrict, Jombang regency, is always decreased in every harvest period. It becomes a loss for the farmers. Whereas, the government has made a regulation concerning the price determination of unhulled rice …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
… have chosen to stop working through Canadian middlemen and have instead established a direct presence in Canada. What factors have facilitated this decision? How is it likely to affect the dynamics of the transnational drug trade in Canada? It appears that the decision to stop working through …
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Scalable Distribution of Data Across Autonomous Systems
… we show how a few (potentially competing) middlemen can be used for creating inter-AS distribution trees for large-scale video distribution.
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Trade Networks under Asymmetric Information
… on the valuations for the traded good. Middlemen, either as individuals or realtors, seem to have influential effects on the pricing strategy in the housing market. In Chapter 3, we analyze the contribution of the middlemen in the housing market as an application to trade networks. We …
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Analysis of Leather Value Chain in Tanzania: The Case of Mwanza City
… chains within the study area, the numbers of middlemen might add the costs of production and reduce the quality of product, factors which damage the quality of hides and skins varies from one actor to another, hides and skins traders and leather tanner are the only two actors who are getting …
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Distribution channel for Moroccan artisans
… most downstream actors playing the role of the middlemen. Other Ecommerce models such as the marketplace model or the crowdfunding model did not solve all the issues faced by artisans and customers. This paper provides the framework for a new distribution channel for Moroccan artisans to improve …
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Network Formation and Economic Applications
… functions satisfy a certain property called "middlemen-security". We further find that there is a broad class of networks called "middlemen-free networks" for which the above condition is automatically satisfied under all possible value functions. We also look at three network applications. A …
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Multi echelon supply chain design for Amazon private brands
… products directly from manufacturers to remove middlemen from the value chain, thereby capturing greater value and subsequently passing it on to customers. Combined with the growth of e-commerce as the primary method for consumers to shop for products, expanding private label portfolio has made …
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Casting Bread Upon the Waters: American Farming and the International Wheat Market, 1880-1920
… the marketing system, arguing that merchants and middlemen had organized the market in such a way as to control it through unethical and damaging means such as pools and price agreements. These efforts having largely failed, farmers turned increasingly to the cooperative movement to try to exert …
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Comparing Modern Day Acquisition Costs of Trafficked Individuals: Implications for Anti-Trafficking Measures
… of the trafficking process, preventing these middlemen from acquiring victims as well as protecting vulnerable populations in order to prevent their exploitation.</p>
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Pumping up : Russian energy and national power
… in order to increase market presence, cut out middlemen, and further build production chains. Russia expects to strengthen its international position, both economically and geopolitically by undertaking this strategy of vertical integration.
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Diagnóstico da pesca na microrregião do curimataú e seridó paraibano
… fish species. The production flow is directed to middlemen (64%) and for sale in street markets (36%).
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Cryptonetworks - The incentive-based Economics of Blockchain
… With this technology, third-parties and middlemen are no longer necessary to enforce transactions. Instead, blockchain uses decentralised consensus protocols and embedded logic to enforce contracts. The applications of blockchain are vast and include cryptonetworks, the culmination of …
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Land agents and estate management in King's County during the Great Famine, 1838 to 1853
… including overcrowding, subdivision, leasing and middlemen. This thesis has also highlighted how many landed estates in King's County were financially embarrassed on the eve of the Famine and as a result poorly managed. Over ninety land agents were identified who were involved in the management of …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
… intervention would be the targeting of “middlemen” and commercial traders. However, decisive action at a national, regional and international scale is needed to ensure the future sustainability of shark fisheries in Madagascar.
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The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
… the early 1900s on beaches where fishermen and middlemen or higglers exchanged fish for crops. Market activity reached a height during the 1950s when the government built a market shed. However, depleting fish stocks, largely due to overfishing, caused the market to decline. The shed closed in …
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