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Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - 5920 Agriculture (incl. sharecropping)

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  • Braverman, Avishay and Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1982), 'Sharecropping and the Interlinking of Agrarian Markets', 72 American Economic Review , 695-715.
  • Braverman, Avishay and Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1986), 'Cost-Sharing Arrangements under Sharecropping: Moral Hazard, Incentive Flexibility, and Risk', 68 American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 642-652.
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  • Caputo, Michael R. and Lynch, Lori (1993), 'A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of California Cotton Ginning Cooperatives', 18 Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics , 251-265.
  • Centner, Terence J. (1993), 'The U.S.'s Organic Foods Production Act Does the Small-Farmer Exception Breach the U.S.'s Obligations Under GATT?', 28 Tulsa Law Journal , 715-722.
  • Cheung, Steven N.S. (1968), 'Private Property Rights and Share Cropping', 76 Journal of Political Economy , 1107-1122.
  • Cheung, Steven N.S. (1969), A Theory of Share Tenancy , Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 188 p.
  • Cheung, Steven N.S. (1969), 'Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion and the Choice of Contractual Arrangements', 12 Journal of Law and Economics , 23-42.
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  • Chew, Tek-Ann (1993), 'The Transactional Framework of Sharecropping: Further Implications', 41 Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics , 209-221.
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  • Eswaran, Mukesh and Kotwal, Ashok (1985), 'A Theory of Contractual Structure in Agriculture', 75 American Economic Review , 352-367.
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  • Helmberger, Peter G. and Hoos, Sidney (1965), Cooperative Bargaining in Agriculture , Berkeley, University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences.
  • Higgs, Robert (1973), 'Race, Tenure, and Resource Allocation in Southern Agriculture', 33 Journal of Economic History , 149-169.
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  • Johnson, D. Gale (1958), 'Government and Agriculture: Is Agriculture a Special Case?', 1 Journal of Law and Economics , 122-135.
  • Johnson, Nancy L. (1995), The Diffusion of Livestock Breeding Technology in the U.S.: Observations on the Relationship between Technical Change and Industry Structure , Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics.
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  • Knoeber, Charles R. (1983), 'An Alternative Mechanism to Assure Contractual Reliability', 12 Journal of Legal Studies , 333-343.
  • Knoeber, Charles R. (1989), 'A Real Game of Chicken: Contracts, Tournaments, and the Production of Broilers', 5 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 271-292.
  • Knoeber, Charles R. and Baumer, David L. (1986), 'Guaranteeing A Market and the Contracts of Bargaining Cooperatives', 1 Journal of Agricultural Cooperation , 1-10.
  • Knoeber, Charles R. and Thurman, Walter N. (1994), 'Testing the Theory of Tournaments: An Empirical Analysis of Broiler Production', 12 Journal of Labor Economics , 155-179.
  • Knoeber, Charles R. and Thurman, Walter N. (1995), 'Don't Count Your Chickens...': Risk and Risk Shifting in the Broiler Industry', 77 American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 486-496.
  • Ladd, George W. (1974), 'A Model of a Bargaining Cooperative', 56 American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 509-519.
  • Laffont, Jean-Jacques and Matoussi, Mohamed Salah (1995), 'Moral Hazard, Financial Constraints and Sharecropping in El Ouja', 62 Review of Economic Studies , 381-399.
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  • Leffler, Keith B. and Rucker, Randal R. (1991), 'Transaction Costs and the Efficient Organization of Production: A Study of Timber Harvesting Contracts', 99 Journal of Political Economy , 1060-1087.
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