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This article provides a non-technical survey on recent topics in the theory of contracts. The hold-up problem is presented and the incomplete contracts approach is discussed. Emphasis is put on conceptual problems and open questions that await further research.
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seriously engage to approximate the legislation with well known international standards by applying international contract … internationally recognised. Alternative possibilities of entrance in trade, guaranteed by contract law of every country and which …
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project specification endogenously. The contract between the procurer and the winner of the auction is incomplete in that the … find that ignoring the existence of contract incompleteness in the structural analysis of the bidding data leads to …
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We present an experimental test of a shirking model where monitoring intensity is endogenous and effort a continuous variable. Wage level, monitoring intensity and consequently the desired enforceable effort level are jointly determined by the maximization problem of the firm. As a result,...
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contract enforcement behavior in a market with incomplete contracts and repeated interactions. Dismissal barriers are shown to … entirely offsetting the negative incentive and efficiency effects of dismissal barriers. Nevertheless, contract enforcement …. Our results show that market outcomes are the result of a complex interplay between contract enforcement policies and the …
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entitled to prematurely terminate the relation after the other party's choice. We show that under such a contract it is always …. Indeed, the first-best efficient solution can be obtained by such a contract. …
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. When writing a long-term contract the parties have to rely on renegotiations in order to ensure materially efficient trade … ex post. The type of the concluded long-term contract affects the buyer’s expectations regarding the outcome of …
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An inventor can invest research effort to come up with an innovation. Once an innovation is made, a contract is …
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An agent can make an observable but non-contractible investment. A principal then offers to collaborate with the agent to provide a public good. Private information of the agent about his valuation may either decrease or increase his investment incentives, depending on whether he learns his type...
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This article explores the specific contribution of recent literature on incomplete contracts in comparison with the acontractual Walrasian general equilibrium as well as the complete optimal contracts of the Agency theory regarding the institutional identity of agents. It underlines a tension...
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