Art 6:104 provides, first and foremost, that a contract is not unenforceable for lack of certainty if the parties do not ‘fix the price or the method of determiningit'. The provision is thus meant — as are the following Art 6:105 and 6:106 — to ‘save' contracts in cases in which there is...

In this paper, energy sector’s monopoly behavior is analyzed in the case of Azerbaijan by referring to the literature of Dutch disease and rent-seeking. As a theoretical background, a new general equilibrium model is also developed in order to explain unusual surge of gasoline prices in...

Contracts serve an important function: allocation of risks. In achieving this function, contractual parties routinely include a force majeure clause in their contracts to be excused from performance in the face of a supervening event. But what events qualify to excuse performance and how have...