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This note contributes to the discussion of decision problems with imperfect recall from an empirical point of view. We argue that, using standard methods of experimental economics, it is impossible to induce (or control for) absent-mindedness of subjects. Nevertheless, it is possible to test...
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securitized and portfolio loans. The results are robust to several different definitions of renegotiation and hold in subsamples … lenders negotiate with large numbers of borrowers lead to barriers to renegotiation fundamentally different from those present …
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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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How does renegotiation affect contracts between a principal and an agent subject to persistent private information and … moral hazard? This paper introduces a concept of renegotiation-proofness, which adapts to stochastic games the concepts of … weak renegotiation-proofness and internal consistency by exploiting natural comparisons across states. When the agent has …
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discount factors. Afterwards, we examine different concepts of renegotiation-proofness and extend the characterization to … renegotiation-proof payoffs. …
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renegotiation. If the buyer expects renegotiation always to take place, the parties are always able to implement the materially … efficient good ex post. It can be optimal for the buyer, however, to expect that renegotiation does not take place. In this case …
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hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an … initial contract has a highly significant and economically important impact on renegotiation behavior that goes beyond the …
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We propose a theory of ex post inefficient renegotiation that is based on loss aversion. When two parties write a long …
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renegotiation and relationship-specific investment by the buyer and the seller. As demonstrated by Edlin and Reichelstein (1996), no …
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manufacturer fail in its subsequent negotiation with the second retailer. Renegotiation from scratch induces the first contracting …
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