Walter N. Thurman

TL;DR: This paper used data on the performance of broiler producers facing both tournament and linear performance evaluation compensation structures to test three predictions from the theory of tournaments: that changes in the level of prizes that leave prize differentials unchanged will not affect performance; that, in mixed tournaments, more able players will choose less risky strategies; and that tournament organizers will attempt to handicap players of unequal ability or reduce mixing to avoid the disincentive effects of mixed tournaments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used simulation methods to measure the price and production risk shifted from growers to integrator companies by these contracts and concluded that the bulk of the risk in their sample, which is primarily price risk, is shifted from the growers through the use of production contracts.

TL;DR: The economic forces that drive migratory beekeeping are analyzed and the determinants of pollination fees are analyzed in a larger and richer data set than has been studied before.

TL;DR: In this article, the stability of the demand for poultry meat and specification issues in its estimation are explored, and it is shown that the demand demand shifted out in the early 1970s and the demand relationship between poultry and pork changed from substitution to independence.

TL;DR: In this article, the welfare effects of transfer restrictions for poundage quota under the U.S. flue-cured tobacco program were quantified using a unique cross-section, time-series data set from North Carolina.