caa a22 4500 388070625 CHVBK 20180307125147.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022841 doi S0022050700022841 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022841 The "Rabassa Morta” in Catalan Viticulture: The Rise and Decline of a Long-Term Sharecropping Contract, 1670s-1920s [Elektronische Daten] For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market opportunities. However, from the late nineteenth century, technical change, rising wages, and weak wine prices all increased the incentives for postcontractual opportunistic behavior on the part of the sharecropper, leading to conflicts and loss of trust between the principal and agent. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 Carmona Juan Profesor Visitante and James Simpson Profesor Titular, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain Simpson James Profesor Visitante and James Simpson Profesor Titular, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 290-315 0022-0507 59:2<290 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022841 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carmona Juan Profesor Visitante and James Simpson Profesor Titular, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simpson James Profesor Visitante and James Simpson Profesor Titular, Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 28903 Getafe, Madrid, Spain NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/2(1999-06), 290-315 0022-0507 59:2<290 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge