We study incentive schemes that combine self-chosen goals with prosocial rewards. We design a real-effort task experiment with MTurk workers. Upon achieving self-chosen goals, rewards are paid to the worker in the monetary treatments or to charities in the prosocial treatments. To explore the...

The present day realities facing New York dairy farmers and all dairy farmers is an example of when business risk become so severe that the residual impact on financial risk become acute. While financial risk is ever present, stress results only when conditions arise in which downside risk...

The field performance of three different crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module technologies in Pingshan, China (BSk climate based on the Köppen-Geiger climate classification) is analyzed and compared, including p-type multicrytalline silicon (multi-Si), p-type monocrystalline silicon...

Closer alignment of board members interests with shareholder interests has been viewed as a key to unleashing the firm's performance potential. However, empirical validation of the actual link between board alignment with shareholder interests and performance remains a matter of considerable...

The field performance of three different crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module technologies in Pingshan, China (BSk climate based on the Köppen-Geiger climate classification) is analyzed and compared, including p-type multicrytalline silicon (multi-Si), p-type monocrystalline silicon...

This paper investigates the economic conditions of rural households in China. Historical survey data indicate that over 80 per cent of rural households earn less than 4,500 yuan in net disposable income each year, that for the vast majority of rural households disposable income is insufficient...

Both prices and the volatility of storable agricultural commodity futures contracts have been rising since 2005 and particularly since 2007. This paper aims to answer two principal questions: (i) How has the behavior of these futures prices over time and across maturities changed with the rise...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of Boucher, Carter et al.(2008) framework on risk rationing. The data were collected through a survey of 730farm households in Shaanxi province conducted in November 2010. We comparefactor associated with risk rationed, quantity rationed...

This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China. Results from 1,564 farm households from Western and Central China between October 2007 and October 2008 suggest that the greater risk for farmers is drought followed by excessive rain. Heat is less...