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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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This paper studies internal organization of a firm using an incomplete contracting approach a la Grossman-Hart-Moore and Aghion-Tirole. The two key ingredients of our model are externalities among tasks that require coordination, and investment in task-specific human capital. We compare three...
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contract approach, it is shown that partial privatization may well be the optimal ownership structure. While in the standard … incomplete contract model joint ownership is usually dominated, it is shown here that joint ownership in the form of partial …
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When Court enforcement is excessively difficult or costly, agents are often able to create «endogenous enforcement mechanisms», that is, to design agreements so that each party finds it optimal to carry them out (self-enforcing implicit contracts), thanks to the threat of sanctions affecting...
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different contracting out procedures: the concession contract and the availability contract. The main difference between these … public demands. This is due to the fact that under a concession contract consumers are empowered, i.e. have the possibility …
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This article analyzes a much debated clause in the 1996 coalition contract between SPD and F.D.P. in Rheinland …-Pfalz. Two parties write a contract, based on which decisions under incomplete information have to be made at a later point in … time. It is shown that a complex complete contract can achieve the first best outcome. However, a simple incomplete …
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. Incomplete contract theory (ICT) has become a rigorous and widely used approach in dealing with various issues. It's applications …
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complexity costs are explicitly taken into account, the contracting parties optimally choose an incomplete contract which …
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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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