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Governments often contract with private firms to provide public services such as health care and education. To decrease …
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How far do the contractual implications of hold-up-based theories (Klein, Crawford, and Alchian (1978), Williamson (1979, 1985)) extend? I investigate this in the context of trucking. Quasi-rents in trucking are generally smaller than in the contexts studied in the previous empirical literature....
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-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization contract have unit production shares that are the same as their … cost shares will the contract be incentive compatible. Using a data base of sixty unit operating agreements, we measure the … desirable contract rules for avoiding moral hazard. It also shows how the effects of those rules can be replicated in difficult …
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Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agents' output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is common to all the agents. The...
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efficiency is not attainable. We show that contracts involving mutual control might sometimes be superior to the best contract …
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This paper examines the sharing of risk under three different remedies for breach of contract. The risk considered …. By means of a numerical example, it is shown that use of the prevailing remedy for breach of contract -- the expectation …
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