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Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this … essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize … the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of …
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PPL damages vis-à-vis expected damages under existing contract law. This study clarifies the conditions under which PPLD …
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incomplete contract. It is shown that the efficiency of these solutions is very sensitive to the characteristics of the good or …
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We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort … a transfer depending on whether a player has a valid contract or not. We show that the different systems differ only … with respect to the contract length if the contract which maximizes the expected joint surplus of the initial club and the …
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In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find that when the formal court system is weak, expansion of informal credit network leads to the...
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agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto …
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that permit maximum discretion yield trading patterns that are closer what is observed under a perfectly complete contract …
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current employment relationship and work for another firm. We show that the initial parties to a contract have an incentive to …
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Experimental studies have consistently shown that cooperative outcomes can emerge even in finitely repeated games. Such outcomes are justified by existing reputation building models, which suggest that cooperative outcomes can be sustained if some subjects have other-regarding preferences. While...
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that both the good faith and the implied contract exceptions to employment at will may enhance employment in occupations … operation of a competitive market by setting appropriate default remedies for breach of contract. …
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