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incomplete contract. It is shown that the efficiency of these solutions is very sensitive to the characteristics of the good or … increasing the quality of law. -- contract ; law and economics ; reputation ; repeated games ; incomplete contracts … ; transactions costs ; institutional economics ; contract enforcement …
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those items are undescribable ex ante. In presence of this `quality-choice problem', no initial contract may induce …
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What information should courts utilize when assessing contract damages? Should they award damages that were rationally … damages are more efficient than ex post actual damages through a simple model of costly litigation for contract breach, where …
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in which enforcement of default remedies for breach of contract is imperfect, an optimal performance standard grants … and the seller said to be in "material breach" of contract. This optimal performance standard implements efficient …
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two economically equivalent contracts – a fixed-term renewable and an open-ended at-will contract. Each contract provides … partners with full flexibility regarding the length and termination of their interaction. When only one contract type is … contract type. However, when both contracts are available offering a fixed-term instead of an open-ended contract is perceived …
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In this paper, a setting of bilateral selfish reliance investments and post contractual two-sided asymmetric information is explored. Since the pioneering work of Rogerson (1992) and Hermalin-Katz (1993), it is by now well known that the comprehensive contracts can implement the first best even...
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contracting model, absent judicial idiosyncrasies, the parties always write a contract contingent on the state of nature so as to …
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This article proposes relational contract as a model for analyzing marriage under Canadian law. In contrast, in … instead go to compensation, including reliance and expectations. This article uses relational contract to critique Bracklow …
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Most major jurisdictions require websites to provide customers with privacy policies. A privacy policy’s most important function is to provide consumers with a description of the online service provider’s current privacy practices. We argue that these policies also serve a second,...
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We provide a synthesis of the theoretical models that study the use of escape clauses, also known as safeguards, in multilateral and preferential trade agreements. We consider models that explain this type of flexibility based on economic efficiency, political economy shocks, and...
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