Judges become ambitious decision makers when they face appellate review. This paper applies a contract theoretic perspective to the behavior of self-interested trial judges in a two-level court system and analyzes the consequences for contracting in “the shadow of” the court. Confronted with...

Public procurement is one of the main cross-sectoral reforms that the Government of Lebanon committed to at the "Conférence économique pour le développement, par les réformes et avec lesentreprises" (CEDRE) held in Paris in April 2018, in order to improve fiscal governance and the qualityof...