Simultaneous production decisions in agricultural contexts

Farmers often decide simultaneously on crop production or input use without knowing other farmers’ decisions. Anticipating the behavior of other farmers can increase financial performance. This paper investigates the role of other famers’ behaviors and other contextual factors in farmers’ simultaneous production decisions. Market entry games are a common method for investigating simultaneous production decisions. However, so far they have been conducted with abstract tasks and by untrained subjects. We extend market entry games by using three real contexts, pesticide use, animal welfare, and wheat production, in an incentivized framed field experiment with 323 German farmers. We find that farmers take different decision under identical incentive structures for the three contexts. While context plays a major role in their decisions, their expectations about the behavior of other farmers have little influence on their decision.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-x5z-zfq2
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-2j-zeft
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-08-2020-0708
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:204413
Provenance
Creator Hoehler, JULIA ORCID logo
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Mueller, JOERG; Hoehler, JULIA; Dr. Joerg Mueller (Justus Liebig University Giessen); Dr. Julia Hoehler (Wageningen University)
Publication Year 2021
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; License: http://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf; http://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf
OpenAccess false
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/pdf; .dat; .sps; .sav
Discipline Other