Sáenz-Segura, Fernando; D'Haese, Marijke; Schipper, … - In: Agricultural Systems 103 (2010) 1, pp. 10-20
We model the contractual arrangements between smallholder pepper (Piper nigrum L.) producers and a single processor in Costa Rica. Producers in the El Roble settlement sell their pepper to only one processing firm, which exerts its monopsonistic bargaining power by setting the purchase price of...