Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300171 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2024-04
Publisher: 
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics, Ramat-Gan
Abstract: 
We study the effect of warehouse receipt financing on terms of trade for farmers. With limited access to credit and storage facilities, farmers are compelled to sell their produce immediately after harvest at unfavourable prices. Warehouse receipt systems allow farmers to obtain loans with the crop kept in the warehouse as collateral. Using detailed price data from rural crop markets across India, we assess the effectiveness of a reform passed in 2007 to establish a warehouse receipt system, in improving crop prices for farmers and reducing seasonal price volatility. We compare outcomes in markets in close vicinity to a new program warehouse in the period after the warehouse registered to the program, to the period before and to markets further away from a program warehouse in both periods. We find a positive and persistent effect of warehouse receipt financing on prices received by farmers, and a reduction in inter-seasonal price volatility as a result of the treatment.
Subjects: 
Post-harvest credit
Diff-in-diff
Agricultural markets
Price seasonality
Storage
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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