Cooperatives, contract farming, and farm size: The case of tomato producers in Nepal
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DOI: 10.1002/agr.21563
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of contract farming (CF) through cooperatives in tomatoes on employment and economic performance of smallholders in a low‐income developing country. Using farm‐level data from Nepal and a nonparametric matching estimator,… read more here.
Keywords: contract; cooperatives contract; farm size; profits yield ... See more keywords
IT Contract Flexibility and Negotiator Incentives
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DOI: 10.1002/mde.2776
Abstract: Information Technology outsourcing contracts are plagued by inflexibility. We develop an economic model to explain how the contract negotiator's incentives influence contract flexibility. We show that neither wage nor one-time commission type pay gives any… read more here.
Keywords: contract; preference; negotiator incentives; contract flexibility ... See more keywords
Contract design in dynamic agency: An experimental analysis
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DOI: 10.1002/mde.2859
Abstract: This paper reports results from an experiment studying contract design in a dynamic 2-period agency relationship with unobservable effort. A deferred compensation contract is theoretically optimal—it places all incentives on the outcomes in the second… read more here.
Keywords: design dynamic; contract; dynamic agency; agency experimental ... See more keywords
Contract withdrawals and equilibrium in competitive markets with adverse selection
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DOI: 10.1007/s00199-018-1101-4
Abstract: In competitive common value adverse selection markets, existence of a pure strategy equilibrium is often justified by appealing to Wilson’s (J Econ Theory 16(2):167–207, 1977) concept of ‘anticipatory equilibrium.’ The anticipatory equilibrium is based on… read more here.
Keywords: anticipatory equilibrium; contract; contract withdrawals; adverse selection ... See more keywords
Robust contracting in general contract spaces
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DOI: 10.1007/s00199-021-01354-9
Abstract: We consider a general framework of optimal mechanism design under adverse selection and ambiguity about the type distribution of agents. We prove the existence of optimal mechanisms under minimal assumptions on the contract space and… read more here.
Keywords: contract spaces; robust contracting; general contract; contract ... See more keywords
Incentive contracts of knowledge investment for cooperative innovation in project-based supply chain with double moral hazard
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DOI: 10.1007/s00500-019-03894-8
Abstract: The degree of knowledge investment of partners is the key to success for cooperative innovation in project-based supply chain. The intangibility and unverifiability of their knowledge investment lead to the double moral hazard which will… read more here.
Keywords: investment; knowledge investment; cooperative innovation; contract ... See more keywords
Supply chain contracts for capacity decisions under symmetric and asymmetric information
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DOI: 10.1007/s10100-017-0474-y
Abstract: Production capacity decision under random demand is an important factor that significantly effects supply chain profits. It is realized in decentralized supply chains that the suppliers build capacity levels that are less than optimal for… read more here.
Keywords: supply; contract; information; capacity ... See more keywords
Incentive mechanism on customer knowledge collaborative acquisition with relational contract under double-sided moral hazard in big data context
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DOI: 10.1007/s10586-017-1525-9
Abstract: In the big data context, the customer data are distributed out of the enterprise boundary. It’s the key to maintain competitive advantage that applying the customer knowledge acquisition to the enterprise innovation. From the perspective… read more here.
Keywords: contract; customer; customer knowledge; acquisition ... See more keywords
Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Social Contracts for Pareto Improving Pollution Mitigation
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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-017-0155-2
Abstract: We consider, in an overlapping generations model with an environmental externality, a scheme of contracts between any two successive generations. Under each contract, agents of the young generation invest a share of their labor income… read more here.
Keywords: contract; social contracts; pareto improving; pollution ... See more keywords
Putting relational contract theory to the test: experimental evidence
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DOI: 10.1007/s10683-021-09707-w
Abstract: We investigate a number of canonical predictions that arise from relational contract theory. Employing an experimental design with endogenous choice of contract type, we find considerable experimental support for several well-established predictions, including the importance… read more here.
Keywords: putting relational; relational contract; performance; contract theory ... See more keywords
Using Digital Forensic Techniques to Identify Contract Cheating: A Case Study
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DOI: 10.1007/s10805-019-09358-w
Abstract: Contract cheating is a major problem in Higher Education because it is very difficult to detect using traditional plagiarism detection tools. Digital forensics techniques are already used in law to determine ownership of documents, and… read more here.
Keywords: contract; forensic techniques; case; document ... See more keywords