Giné, Xavier; Jacoby, Hanan G. - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 1, pp. 399-435
To quantify contracting distortions in a real‐world market, we develop and structurally estimate a model of contracting under payoff uncertainty in the south Indian groundwater economy. Uncertainty arises from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwater supply during the agricultural dry season....