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-invest in early construction, seeking a renegotiation thereafter. We show that, in a renegotiation-proof contract, the marginal …
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, competition does not eliminate but rather exacerbates inefficiencies arising from contracting with focused agents. Common contract …
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make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk …
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This paper quantifies a tenant-side "split incentives" problem that exists when the largest commercial sector customers are on electricity-included property lease contracts causing them to face a marginal electricity price of zero. We use exogenous variation in weather shocks to show that the...
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consumer electronics, and club memberships. We demonstrate that consumption is affected by contract structure (pay-peruse vs …. We also measure subjects' willingness to pay for a contract with free access units, and we find that nearly half of … strategy is therefore to offer a contract that pre-sells access units at a very small discount; this strategy increases revenue …
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Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes...
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This paper explores the connection between tenant riskiness, commercial lease length and the term structure of lease contracts. Theory shows that the possibility of default on a long-term lease generates a risk/lease-length connection. The empirical work uses a large CompStak lease dataset...
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Trust between parties should drive the negotiation and design of contract: if parties did not trust each others … over time, we find that lower trust increases contract completeness. Not only contract complexity but also the verifiable …
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Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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market. Thus, the business group's organizational mode and the financial structure allow a self-enforcing contract to be …
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