Setting Incentives for Collaboration Among Agricultural Scientists: Application of Principal-Agent Theory to Team Work

The USDA is attempting to shift more research funds into competitive grants involving collaboration across disciplines on large projects. This type of research structure raises a host of information and incentive issues. The objective of this paper is to shed new light on principal-agent problems that are likely to arise in this new funding structure.

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Year of publication:	2010-06-22
Authors:	Huffman, Wallace E.
Institutions:	Department of Economics, Iowa State University
Subject:	incentives \| Principal-agent model \| team research \| competitive grants \| multi-disciplinary research

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Staff General Research Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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