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incentives to complement this regulatory approach. This paper examines the potential of incentives programs to elicit … Oregon and Washington is used to examine the effectiveness of various incentives. The results indicate that incentives, in … results also suggest that conservation policy for private lands could be improved by relying on a combination of incentives …
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This research aims at identifying the incentives associated to collaterals in an asymmetric information context and … relationship or not. Our results confirm that collaterals’ incentives depend on the bank monitoring. Moreover, this emphasizes the …
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This paper investigates the presence of career incentives in arm's-length contracts between wine-grape farmers and … wineries in Chile. We observe explicit incentives in pay-for-performance provisions that depend on measurable characteristics … of grape quality, and we test for the presence of complementary implicit incentives that arise from competition in the …
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Beef cattle production is responsible for approximately 2.2% of total US GHG production. In some agroecosystems, afforestation has the potential to sequester more carbon than other pasture and rangeland management practices. This research examines the factors, including an incentive, influencing...
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The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program for farmers was established in 2002 to assist farmers adversely affected by import surges. Since its introduction, the program has been mostly underused by farmers, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in 2009 eased the program rules...
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We investigate the economic importance of implicit quality incentives in an agricultural market that lacks the … distinguish empirically between hedonic-pricing and implicit-contracting motivations for observed incentives. We find price … contracting is used to provide quality incentives comparable in magnitude to what is provided through more explicit means in …
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Two well-known hypotheses from the literature on tournaments are that (1) tournaments can filter out common shocks thereby reducing agents risk exposure; and (2) disincentive effects can arise when a tournament scheme is administered on a group of mixed ability agents. While handicapping and/or...
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