Throughout modern business history, contract has been used as an organizational technology that holds counterparties in … formal or legally binding agreements. The proliferation of contract prompted the emergence of professional contract managers …), contract has come to be seen as a standard coordination device whose foundational assumptions are taken for granted. In this …

and drawbacks which derive from the legal techniques underlying CCP clearing (standardisation of contracts, asset …

cost uncertainty for users, it has been suggested that forward contracts could be used to manage these risks. We develop a … forward contracts would be adopted by service providers. Service on the upstream segment is provided by a single Internet … downstream network segment, with the advance possibility of entering into forward contracts with their users for some of their …

the central aims of this policy was to create financial incentives for providers to improve their clinical performance …, we exploit the fact that choice-based reforms will create sharper financial incentives for hospitals in markets where …

contracting parties cannot include the risky unforeseen contingencies in the contract they draw up. Ex-post the court observes … whether an unforeseen contingency occurred, and decides whether to void or uphold the contract. If the contract is voided by … the court, the parties can renegotiate a new agreement ex-post. There are two effects of a court that voids more contracts …

incentives to perform well. …