Contract choice and enforcement in an agrarian community: Agricultural tenancy in upland Java
通过对西爪哇高地村庄的调查,研究了在复杂的间作系统中,分成制合同为何仍被选择,并发现地主只有在能以低机会成本执行合同时才会选择分成制。
This study explores the conditions under which a certain contract is preferred to others, through an intensive survey of an upland village in West Java. Despite an obvious difficulty in enforcing the terms of share contract in a highly complex intercropping system, no significant difference in allocative efficiency was found between share tenancy and other forms of land tenure. The results indicate that share tenancy was chosen only by the landlords who had the ability to enforce contractual terms at a low opportunity cost.