In this paper, the hypothesis that performance of trading firms depends on their assets (physical, financial, human capital and social capital) and trading practices is tested with data from a sample of 131 live animal traders in 38 rural Ethiopian highland markets. Most traders used own capital...

At present there is a special concern for the consumer’s protection. The right of unilateral termination confers to one of the contracting parties the possibility to decide over keeping and executing the contract without the other party's consent.

The transformations taken place after 1989 in Romania also imposed explicit regulations in protecting consumers in their relationship with the suppliers of Goods or Services as per Law 296/2004 on Consumption Code – the consumer is “the natural person or group of natural persons gathered in...

On the grain market encumbered the participation in the measure, I presume, that a larger proportion of traders could be involved in the measure. My analysis highlights the fact that farmers were able to adapt to the regulations and sell their grain for intervention. This is proven by the fact...

Using a survey data of 700 traders, this study scrutinizes contract choices and enforcement for agricultural traders in China. This study finds that market service and environment are very important for both contract choices and enforcement. Better market service and environment can increase the...