In 2004, the provincial government of Ontario passed legislation that imposed a moratorium on urban development of agricultural land within a "Greenbelt" boundary.  This legislation, which became known as the Greenbelt legislation, has a direct effect on over 1.8 million acres of land...

This paper introduces misrepresentation and cheating into the policy analysis of output quotas and subsidies. Analytical results show that when cheating occurs output quotas are a less efficient means of income redistribution than is traditionally believed. As well, cheating increases the...

This article develops a sequential game-theoretic model of heterogeneous producers to examine the market and welfare effects of cooperative involvement in process innovation activity in the agricultural sector. The analysis examines an open-membership, input-supplying cooperative (co-op) that...

Standard pricing practices are generally not efficient for a cooperative. Sexton (1986) suggests that membership fees/rebates can be used to facilitate efficient pricing, but such schemes may not be feasible because of membership heterogeneity and information asymmetries. In this paper a...

This article develops a sequential game-theoretic model of heterogeneous producers to examine the market and welfare effects of cooperative involvement in process innovation activity in the agricultural sector. The analysis examines an open-membership, input-supplying cooperative (co-op) that...

The purpose of this article is to examine the system-wide effects of the introduction of genetically modified (GM) products with and without labeling and to compare these two regimes to a third regime where GM products are not present either because they have not yet been developed or because...