This paper examines the joint determination of public policies which provide agricultural research and those which provide subsidies to farmers. The paper suggests that the puzzlingly consistent finding of "underinvestment" in agricultural research may be related to the inseparability of these...

This report summarizes preliminary findings of the Mexican National Database and Community Survey Project which examines linkages between institutional characteristics in Mexico’s common property forestry sector and economic and environmental outcomes. Framing the Mexican agrarian...

This paper studies a class of information aggregation models which we call “aggregation games.†It departs from the related literature in two main respects: information is aggregated by averaging rather than majority rule, and each player selects from a continuum of reports rather than...