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 …

importance of impediments and effectiveness of incentives in the adoption decision. In this research we describe an empirical … incentives in the adoption of conservation practices. The research was carried out in the tropical savannas region of Australia … have to be developed with reference to graziers subjective views on impediments and on the effectiveness of incentives. …

incentives (that link conservation with utilization) and removal of perverse incentives are believed to be crucial so that … landraces of no immediate interest to farmers can be conserved. However, before designing sound incentives and/or removing … perverse incentives, we have to understand farmers' motives for managing a portfolio of traditional varieties. To address our …

environmental considerations have all played a part in the development of alternative fuels and in the creation of incentives …

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 …

the deterrence hypothesis, namely that crime is weakly decreasing in deterrent incentives, i.e. severity and probability … of punishment. In our experiment, subjects can steal from another participant's payoff. Deterrent incentives vary across … incentives, subjects steal more the stronger the incentives. We observe two types of subjects: selfish subjects who act according …