Holly Wang, H.; Zhang, Yanping; Wu, Laping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 489-505
authors assume growers with alternative risk preferences make the contract decisions to maximize their expected utilities … indicate that the determining factors for contract farming are related to farmers' risk attitude, gender, yield, farm size and … labor availability. However, contrary to the common belief that contracts are a risk management tool for risk averse farmers …