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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Schiller, Jörg - Fachbereich Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Universität Hamburg - 2004
Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten … using existing results of contract theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401217
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The Economic Theory of the Firm: A Generalization
M. Storchevoy. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 9 (2012)
The paper deals with development of a general theory of the firm. It discusses the demand for such a theory, reviews … existing approaches to its generalization, and offers a new variant of general theory of the firm based on the contract theory …. The theory is based on minimization of opportunistic behaviour determined by the material structure of production (a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860817
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Agency theory: choice-based foundations of the parametrized distribution formulation
Karni, Edi - In: Economic Theory 36 (2008) 3, pp. 337-351
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005370740
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Methods for Nuclei Detection, Segmentation, and Classification in Digital Histopathology: A Review - Current Status and Future Potential
Irshad, H.; Veillard, A.; Roux, L.; Racoceanu, D. - Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard …
Digital pathology represents one of the major evolutions in modern medicine. Pathological examinations constitute the gold standard in many medical protocols, and also play a critical and legal role in the diagnosis process. In the conventional cancer diagnosis, pathologists analyze biopsies to...
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Vertragliche Anreize und die Fehlbarkeit des Richters – Der ungewisse Gang vor Gericht und sein Einfluss auf eine Verhaltenssteuerung im BGB-Vertragsrecht
Christmann, Robin - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2013
Nach dem Grundsatz «pacta sunt servanda» ermöglichen Verträge den Beteiligten das Vertrauen in den Bestand eines Leistungsversprechens. Die Zivilgerichte können jedoch in der Praxis pflichtgemäßes und vertragswidriges Verhalten nicht fehlerfrei unterscheiden. Unter Zuhilfenahme des...
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The dynamics of venture capital contracts
Bienz, Carsten; Hirsch, Julia - Center for Financial Studies - 2005
We analyze the degree of contract completeness with respect to staging of venture capital investments using a hand-collected German data set of contract data from 464 rounds into 290 entrepreneurial firms. We distinguish three forms of staging (pure milestone financing, pure round financing and...
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Tipping the Scales – Conciliation, Appeal and the Relevance of Judicial Ambition
Christmann, Robin - Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991229
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Futures market: contractual arrangement to restrain moral hazard in teams
Song, Joon - In: Economic Theory 51 (2012) 1, pp. 163-189
Holmstrom (Bell J Econ 13:324–340, <CitationRef CitationID="CR16">1982</CitationRef>) argues that a principal is required to restrain moral hazard in a team: wasting output in certain states is required to enforce efficient effort, and the principal is a commitment device for the waste. Under competition in commodity and team-formation...</citationref>
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Duality in Contracting
Bardsley, Peter - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2012
In a linear contracting environment the Fenchel transform provides a complete duality between the contract and the information rent. Through an appropriate generalised convexity this can be extended to provide a complete duality in the supermodular quasilinear contracting environment that covers...
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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ('next generation access', NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...
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