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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...
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given period, after having observed her income, the agent can walk away from the contract, while the intermediary cannot, i … intermediaries. Insurance can be provided because in an equilibrium contract an up-front payment effectively locks in the agent with … an intermediary. We then show that our contract economy is equivalent to a consumption-savings economy with one …
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Art 6:104 provides, first and foremost, that a contract is not unenforceable for lack of certainty if the parties do …:106 — to ‘save' contracts in cases in which there is ‘no doubt that the parties intended to be bound by the contract'. While … orders differ with respect to what are considered essential elements without which a contract cannot ‘exist' and the degree …
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This paper considers a simple Continuous Beliefs System (CBS) toinvestigate the effects on price dynamics of several behavioralassumptions: (i) herd behaviour; (ii) a-synchronous updating ofbeliefs; and (iii) heterogeneity in time horizons (memory) amongagents. The recently introduced concept of...
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We model an individual who wants to learn about a state of the world. The individual has a prior belief, and has data which consists of multiple forecasts about the state of the world. Our key assumption is that the decision maker identifies explanations that could have generated this data and...
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Investor-funded mining farms –– a novel and most promising investment vehicle still taking shape, before shaking up the mining space and crypto industry writ large –– present a number of legal challenges and considerations for potential investors. We frame the most important issues...
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Travelers have to handle with various risks and uncertainties by themselves or they can ask a travel agent to act on their behalf in order to minimize and/or to solve them. We believe that the new nature of the activities that could be offered by the travel agencies would rather be a risk...
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