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The "Rabassa Morta" in Catalan viticulture : the rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s

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  • Carmona Pidal, Juan
  • Simpson, James

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For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market opportunities. However, from the late nineteenth century, technical change, rising wages, and weak wine prices all increased the incentives for postcontractual opportunistic behavior on the part of the sharecropper, leading to conflicts and loss of trust between the principal and agent. Under these conditions, contemporaries often considered the contract synonymous with "exploitation" and "impoverishment," terms frequently found in the more traditional literature on sharecropping.

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  1. Otsuka, Keijiro & Chuma, Hiroyuki & Hayami, Yujiro, 1992. "Land and Labor Contracts in Agrarian Economies: Theories and Facts," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 30(4), pages 1965-2018, December.
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  1. James Simpson, 2004. "Phylloxera, Price Volatility And Institutional Innovation In France’S Domestic Wine Markets, 1870-1911," Working Papers in Economic History wh044602, Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones.
  2. Simpson, James, . "Cooperation and cooperative in southern European wine production : the nature of successful institutional innovation, 1880-1950," Open Access publications from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid info:hdl:10016/6184, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
  3. Marc Badia-Miro & Enric Tello, 2013. "An agency-oriented model to explain vine-growing specialization in the province of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in the mid-nineteenth century," Working Papers in Economics 290, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia.
  4. Juan Carmona & James Simpson, 2007. "Why sharecropping? : explaining its presence and absence in Europe's vineyards, 1750-1950," Working Papers in Economic History wp07-11, Universidad Carlos III, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones.

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