Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper analyses the empirical determinants of contract length, a key andyet neglected dimension of contractual … structure. I estimate contract length andcontract type jointly using original data on tenancy agreements signed between1870 and … 1880 in the district of Siracusa, Italy.The findings indicate that the choice of contract length is driven by theneed to …