Financial risk monitoring and transaction costs in coffee & soybean trading companies and processors

This study characterizes the use of risk monitoring mechanisms by coffee and soybean trading and processing companies. It also investigates the role these mechanisms play in the mitigation of certain transaction costs associated to bounded rationality, information asymmetry, and business opportunism...

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Main Authors: Edson Costa Bignotto, Adriano Azevedo Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural 2003-03-01
Series:Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20032003000100002