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Hart & Moore (1999) construct a model to show that contracts perform poorly when the state of the world is unverifiable …
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this remedial regime allows parties to write simple contracts that induce first-best cooperative investments …
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This paper provides a theoretical framework in support of recent empirical findings where the use of open contracts in …
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We study games of public delegated common agency under asymmetric information. Using tools from non-smooth analysis and …
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When investments are non-verifiable, inducing cooperative investments with simple contracts may not be as difficult as … some (exogenously given) quality threshold. In order to implement this regime, no more information needs to be verifiable …
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this remedial regime allows parties to write simple contracts that induce first-best cooperative investments. …
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We develop a theoretical framework that allows us to study which bilateral links and coalition structures are going to emerge at equilibrium. We define the notion of coalitional network to represent a network and a coalition structure, where the network specifies the nature of the relationship...
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This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining approach and distinguishes between the outcome and its actual enforcement. The absorptive capacity of the Southern country to exploit technology transfer plays a key role in the...
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We present a Theory of Contracts under costly enforcement in the context of a dynamic relationship between an … constraints ensuring that trading partners do not breach contracts unduly. Whether a long-term contract is enforceable does not … depend on the distribution of penalties for breach between the buyer and the seller. While under complete information, the …
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