Agricultural cooperatives (ACs) are major players in European farming, where they account
for 40–60% of agricultural trade, and are key actors in articulating rural realities. This paper …

Cooperatives are of particular interest to economists because of their unique ownership
structure and the incentives this structure creates. In addition to the so-called property rights …

The variety of solutions to organize economic activities is striking, and underexplored. This
paper proposes a framework that combines transaction cost and relational contracts models …

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to empirically implement a comprehensive analytical
framework of financial performance in the case of Greek industrial firms during the period …

For agricultural products, cooperative systems are an alternative to independent business
arrangements that can be used to solve the simultaneous need to coordinate supply from …

In this article the financial/ownership structures of agribusiness cooperatives are analyzed to
examine whether new cooperative models perform better than the more traditional ones …

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for
approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in …

This paper uses three alternating changes in hedge fund regulation to study whether
regulation reduces hedge funds' misreporting, and, if so, why regulation is effective. Relative …

Horizontal, multilateral and polycentric forms of governance, albeit important in reality,
represent a challenge for the now dominant use of the 'market and hierarchy'continuum of …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically implement a comprehensive analytical framework
of financial performance in the case of Greek industrial firms during the period 1997-2004 …