Risk and transactions cost in contracting: Results from a choice-based experiment

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-39

  Hudson, Darren ^a,c   Lusk, Jayson ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Mississippi State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Choice based conjoint; Contracting; Experiments; Risk; Surveys; Transactions cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944383139     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1046     Document Type: Article

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