Regulating Broiler Contracts: Tournaments Versus Fixed Performance Standards
分析禁止肉鸡养殖合同中使用锦标赛制、改用固定绩效标准的福利效应，发现若同时规制计件工资率，可提高养殖户收入保险和福利。
Abstract Grower discontent with tournaments as mechanisms for settling poultry contracts can largely be attributed to the group composition risk that tournaments impose on growers. This article focuses on the welfare effects of a widely advocated regulatory proposal to prevent integrator companies from using tournaments and replace them with schemes that compare performance to a fixed standard. The analysis shows that the mandatory replacement of tournaments with fixed performance standards, absent any rules that regulate the magnitude of the piece rate, can decrease grower income insurance without raising welfare. However, replacing tournaments with fixed performance standards can simultaneously increase income insurance and welfare, provided that the magnitude of the piece rate is also regulated.