@article{Hueth:201551,
      recid = {201551},
      author = {Hueth, Brent and Melkonyan, Tigran},
      title = {Quality Measurement and Contract Design: Lessons from the  North American Sugarbeet Industry},
      address = {2002-08},
      number = {1803-2016-142464},
      series = {FSWP},
      pages = {19},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {We examine contracts used in the North American sugarbeet  industry. Though
quite similar in many respects, the  contracts we study vary across processing firms in the
set  of quality measures used to condition contract payments to  growers. This is somewhat
surprising given the homogeneous  nature of the processors’ finished product (refined
sugar).  It seems unlikely that processors differ significantly in  how they value the various
attributes of a sugarbeet, and  this is perhaps the most natural reason to expect  differences
in the structure of quality incentives across  processors. Previous attempts to explain the
observed  variation in sugarbeet contracts have focused on  differences in organizational
form across firms. In this  paper, we provide an alternative explanation that relies  on
variation across production regions in growers’ ability  to ‘control’ the relevant measures
of sugarbeet quality.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/201551},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.201551},
}