Role of trust in cooperation of farmers from the aspects of new institutional economics

The competitiveness of agriculture in countries of the Central-Eastern European region depend not only on the quality of production but also on the organization of product marketing. The producers of the region should face the fact that the Western European producers are usually better at organizing all the phases of production process (purchase, production partnerships, processing, marketing). The key element of cooperation is trust. The article, starting from some theoretical foundations of institutional economics (relations of agency theory and moral hazard), and adapting Sholtes. trust model [1998] we tested the issues of trust and cooperation willingness on the basis of the data of a Hungarian survey in order to find out the degree of cooperation that can be identified in the machine use which has key role in production process and, how it depends on the level of existing trust among farmers.

W pracy dokonano analizy roli zaufania we współpracy między węgierskimi rolnikami, wykorzystując założenia nowej ekonomii instytucjonalnej w modelu Sholetsa.