This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact
of smallholders' perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on …

Psychological studies show that most people are overconfident about their own relative
abilities, and unreasonably optimistic about their futures (eg, Neil D. Weinstein, 1980; Shelly …

Recent years have seen considerable interest in the impact of contract farming on farmers in
developing countries, motivated out of belief that contract farming spurs transition to modern …

It seems fair to say that most economists believe that product market competition has a
positive influence on managerial incentives and hence the productive efficiency of firms. 1 …

Abstract Since Ronald H. Coase's (1937) seminal paper, a rich set of theories has been
developed that deal with firm boundaries in vertical or input–output structures. In the last …

Designed specifically for economics students, The Economic Approach to Law, 2nd Edition,
provides an introductory treatment of law and economics, revealing how economic …

Empirical work on contracts typically regresses contract choice on observed principal and
agent characteristics. If (i) some of these characteristics are unobserved or partially …

Purpose Agency theory suggests that divergences will occur when a principal, eg client, and
agent eg a project manager, interests are different in the execution of a project. The purpose …

Parce qu'elles sont susceptibles d'influer sur les législations contractuelles, les politiques et
les pratiques industrielles, il est important que les théories des contrats se basent, autant …

A contract is an agreement under which two parties make reciprocal commitments in terms
of their behavior to coordinate. As this concept has become essential to economics in the …