Risk Preferences, Transaction Costs, and Choice of Marketing Contracts: Evidence from a Choice Experiment with Fresh Vegetable Producers

Michael Vassalos, Wuyang Hu, Timothy Woods (), Jack Schieffer and Carl Dillon

Agribusiness, 2016, vol. 32, issue 3, 379-396

Abstract: ABSTRACT Growers’ preferences for a number of marketing contract attributes, as well as the effect of growers’ risk aversion levels on the choice of marketing contracts, were examined with the use of a choice experiment. The main data source for the study is a mail survey administrated to wholesale tomato growers. The findings validate the transaction cost hypothesis and indicate heterogeneity in preferences. On the other hand, risk preferences had limited impact on contract choice.

Date: 2016
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