Jorge Alé Chilet is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on industrial organisation.
This project explores the effects of an important deregulation reform in the agricultural marketing sector in India, which allowed private marketing channels to farmers previously limited to the government markets.
In this paper Alé Chilet and Itin-Shwartz (2020) study the effectiveness of marketing channel liberalization in increasing competition among traders and prices obtained by farmers for their produce.