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A Risk Programming Approach To Designing Contracts To Reduce Nitrate Leaching

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  • Chu, Mei-Chin
  • Swinton, Scott M.
  • Batie, Sandra S.

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As contractual agriculture expands, contract design offers a non-regulatory opportunity to reduce non-point source pollution. A risk programming analysis of seed corn contract designs illustrates a tractable empirical principal-agent model, and shows that grower risk preferences affect contract acceptability and efficiency at reducing nitrate leaching.

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  • Chu, Mei-Chin & Swinton, Scott M. & Batie, Sandra S., 1997. "A Risk Programming Approach To Designing Contracts To Reduce Nitrate Leaching," Staff Paper Series 11594, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:midasp:11594
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.11594
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