Tough love: Optimal enforcement of output quotas in the presence of cheating

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Giannakas, Konstantinos ^a   Fulton, Murray ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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