Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this … essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize … the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of …

recourses. Within this apparent variety lurk two fundamental alternatives. The aggrieved party may (i) 'affirm' the contract and … seek money damages or specific performance; or (ii) 'disaffirm' the contract with the remedy of rescission and restitution …. This simple dichotomy of contract remedies applies broadly in both common law and civil law practice. We show here that …

This chapter surveys major issues arising in the economic analysis of contract law. It begins with an introductory … law of contracts. These divisions include freedom of contract (the extent of private power to create binding obligations …), formation of contracts (the procedural mechanics of exchange, and the rules that govern pre-contractual behavior), contract …

experiment, we study behavior in a contract farming game without third-party enforcement but with an external spot market as … outside option. Two players, farmer and company, may conclude a contract but also breach it by side-selling or arbitrary …-order enforcement. Moreover, we investigate whether company players offer price premiums to extend the contract’s self-enforcing range …

Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect … enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may reduce, and community-property marriage actually eliminate inefficiency, but …

In the early models of incomplete contract neither party used to invest in the subject matter of the contract; those … realize subsequent to a binding contract, a systematic analysis has been attempted to see - first, how the legal remedies can … role than that has been realized. Focus remains on the ex-ante design of the contract, which would serve as an implicit …