: how do contracts, presumed to be susceptible to hold-up problems due to incompleteness, control production arrangements … that by their nature invite opportunism? Relying on publicly-available contracts taken from a number of industries, I argue …

. To support this first claim, evidence from collaborative contracts is presented. The second claim is that, because both …

. We assume that the principal uses both, formal contracts and informal agreements sustained by the value of future … relationships (relational contracts) as incentive device. It is found that the principal is less likely to delegate both tasks in a … dynamic setting than in a static one (where formal contracts are the only feasible incentive device), as handling one task …

with foreign suppliers under two contractual modes: rigid and flexible. If suppliers consider original contracts as … ; contracts as reference points ; haggling ; contractual rigidity vs. flexibility …

When have market participants the incentive to strike contracts that exclude potential entrants? This paper synthesizes … the theory of exclusionary contracts and applies the theory to a recent antitrust case, Nielsen. We consider an incumbent … facing potential entry and contracting with both upstream suppliers and downstream buyers. Focusing first on contracts with …