law illustrates that it has evolved in response to problems of market and contract incompleteness, that often leads to …

We provide evidence on how two important types of institutions -- dismissal barriers, and bonus pay -- affect contract … negative incentive and efficiency effects of dismissal barriers. Nevertheless, contract enforcement behavior remains … market outcomes are the result of a complex interplay between contract enforcement policies and the institutions in which …

-term contracts. We argue that only if the parties to a unitization contract have unit production shares that are the same as their … cost shares will the contract be incentive compatible. Using a data base of sixty unit operating agreements, we measure the … desirable contract rules for avoiding moral hazard. It also shows how the effects of those rules can be replicated in difficult …