Farmers’ technology adoption in electric irrigation has recently been analyzed as a coordination problem. To study how the Pareto-inferior equilibrium, farmers are trapped in, can be overcome we have developed a framed field experiment. Leadership and group size are varied in a full factorial...

Agricultural policy is designed to achieve certain goals. One goal that is of increasing importance in public discussion is ‘public money for public goods’, i.e. the compensation for the provision of public goods and the internalization of externalities. The European Union’s Common...

EU farmers face increasing requests to comply with legal as well as private agribusiness and retail standards. Both requests potentially raise farmer’s administrative burden. This paper discusses the potential synergies between cross-compliance and third-party certification schemes. In...