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...