This study examines the economic, social and environmental effects of alternative agricultural methods, traded through fair trade mechanisms, on producers in northern Thailand. These effects are compared with those of conventional agriculture and mixed agriculture (where alternative agriculture...

Share contracts under information asymmetry often involve input application and risk sharing inefficiency. These difficulties are nullified under full information which can be approximated in repeated contracts. We give evidence of cooperation in repeated contracts, indicating the existence of...

Empirical studies on agricultural technology adoption generally divide a population into adopters and non-adopters, and analyze the reasons for adoption or non-adoption at a point in time. In reality, technology adoption is not a one-off static decision rather it involves a dynamic process in...

This study is aimed at developing a theoretically consistent methodology to measure the impact of institutional credit on food grain production in Bangladesh using time series data from various government and non-government sources. This paper has made use of a multi equation model consisting of...

The psychology, the marketing consumer behavior and, to a much smaller extent, the economics literature have long reported evidence that decision makers utilize different decision strategies depending upon many factors (person-specific, task-specific, etc.). Such observations have generally...