One aspect of increasing market channel coordination in the swine industry is the offering of long-term market contracts by pork processors to swine producers. This paper seeks to examine the existing contracts and develop a theoretical framework for analyzing jointly optimal levels of contracting
The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affect the va...
Much of the increase use of vertical coordination in the U.S. swine industry has taken place through...
Actual performance records of production contract farmers are used to assess the extent to which con...
Risk management and efficient, well coordinated, flow-scheduling have an increasingly important role...
Abstract: This paper embeds a principal-agent model of producer-processor equilibrium within a mark...
This paper embeds a principal-agent model of producer-processor equilibrium within a market equilibr...
This paper analyses the economic benefits from vertical coordination in pig production (i.e. a contr...
This study examines the motivation behind contracts and vertical integration in the pork industry, a...
Achieving consistency in hog quality has been one of the greatest challenges in the US pork industry...
Consumers are demanding a greater diversity of products with specific characteristics that challenge...
The pork production industry has been moving toward coordinated efforts where there is an increased ...
Pork production occurs under numerous forms of organizational structures ranging from sole proprieto...
The vertical coordination systems between livestock producers and processors have dramatically shift...
Firms may seek contractual alternatives to vertical integration in order to achieve transactional ec...
This study examines the motivation behind contracts and vertical integration in the pork industry, a...
The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affect the va...
Much of the increase use of vertical coordination in the U.S. swine industry has taken place through...
Actual performance records of production contract farmers are used to assess the extent to which con...
Risk management and efficient, well coordinated, flow-scheduling have an increasingly important role...
Abstract: This paper embeds a principal-agent model of producer-processor equilibrium within a mark...
This paper embeds a principal-agent model of producer-processor equilibrium within a market equilibr...
This paper analyses the economic benefits from vertical coordination in pig production (i.e. a contr...
This study examines the motivation behind contracts and vertical integration in the pork industry, a...
Achieving consistency in hog quality has been one of the greatest challenges in the US pork industry...
Consumers are demanding a greater diversity of products with specific characteristics that challenge...
The pork production industry has been moving toward coordinated efforts where there is an increased ...
Pork production occurs under numerous forms of organizational structures ranging from sole proprieto...
The vertical coordination systems between livestock producers and processors have dramatically shift...
Firms may seek contractual alternatives to vertical integration in order to achieve transactional ec...
This study examines the motivation behind contracts and vertical integration in the pork industry, a...
The goal of this study is to estimate how different price or quantity fixing contracts affect the va...
Much of the increase use of vertical coordination in the U.S. swine industry has taken place through...
Actual performance records of production contract farmers are used to assess the extent to which con...