We study alternative breach remedies in the presence of specific investments that generate a direct benefit to the investor's trading partner (referred to as "cooperative investments."). We find that (i) expectation damages perform very poorly, inducing no cooperative investment; (ii) privately...

We study alternative breach remedies in the presence of specific investments that generate a direct benefit to the investor's trading partner (referred to as "cooperative investments"). We find that (i) expectation damages perform very poorly, inducing no cooperative investment; (ii) privately...

This paper studies alternative contract damage measures in the presence of specific investments that generate a direct benefit to the investor's trading partner (referred to as "cooperative investments"). We find that, both with and without the possibility of ex post renegotiation, (i) the...