This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

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 …

Empirical work testing for a negative trade-off between risk and incentives has not had much
success: the data suggest a positive relationship between measures of uncertainty and …

In the last two centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding, if somewhat neglected,
success story. Agriculture has fed an ever-growing population with an increasing variety of …

The developmental impact of institutions to establish and maintain secure property rights to
land has been a subject of much debate. The authors review the literature on the impact of …

Contractual arrangements involving revenue/profit sharing are often based on fairly simple,
often linear, rules. In addition, in many contexts these contracts are not finely adjusted to the …

The empirical managerial accounting literature has failed to produce a substantive
cumulative body of knowledge. This literature has not matured beyond describing practice to …

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

A semicommons exists where property rights are not only a mix of common and private
rights, but both are significant and can interact. The major example of a semicommons is the …

While the theoretical literature on contracts has been enormous since the seventies,
empirical tests of the theory have long remained scarce. However, new empirical work has …