We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …

In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the … UK market for fixed-voice telephone service. These contracts included a 12-month Minimum Contract Period (MCP) with … dataset, we measure the impact of rollover contracts on BT customers’ decision to switch to another provider. We find that …

building trust and substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. The networks we are interested in …

will be associated with a higher incidence of temporary employment contracts and short-term jobs. …

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organizations …

We embed a simple incomplete-contracts model of organization design in a standard two-country perfectly …

This Paper demonstrates that mall store contracts are written to internalize externalities through both an efficient … attract customers to the mall. Using a unique dataset of mall tenant contracts, we show that rental contracts are written to …