On the emergence of new growers' associations: self-selection versus countervailing power
研究了农业市场中新种植者协会在自我选择与抗衡力量之间的权衡，用不完全契约模型分析同质与异质协会的优劣，发现同质协会在产品差异化收益大或低质量生产者被驱逐时占优。
Increasing differentiation on the supply side of agricultural and horticultural markets has resulted in the emergence of new growers' associations (GAs). These GAs face a trade-off between self-selection and countervailing power, which is analysed with an incomplete contracting model. Heterogeneous GAs frustrate high-quality growers as a result of the policy of applying the equality principle, but they are strong in terms of countervailing power of the growers collectively. The opposite holds for homogeneous GAs. Homogeneous GAs prevail when the benefits of product differentiation are large, or when low-quality producers can be driven out of the market. An efficiency rationale for EU Regulation (EC) No. 2200/96 is formulated.