Date of this Version
4-9-2018
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The farmer share of retail prices is shown to be about 16 percent, corresponding to about 84 percent of a distribution share, on average across agricultural products and regions within Turkey. The share of transportation costs in retail prices is only about 7 percent, while the share of retail margins is about 77 percent of retail prices. The disper- sion of retail prices across regions is shown to be mostly due to local wages and variable markups, while the contribution of traded-input prices is relatively small. Accordingly, the high dispersion of farmer prices across locations is not reáected in the dispersion of retail prices due to the high contribution of retail margins. These retail margins are also shown to account for about one third of the consumer welfare dispersion across regions and more than half of the consumer welfare dispersion across products.
Recommended Citation
Yilmazkuday, Hakan, "Spatial Dispersion of Retail Margins: Evidence from Turkish Agricultural Prices" (2018). Economics Research Working Paper Series. 125.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/economics_wps/125
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