Standard formulations of procurement contract problems analyse the tension between providing performance incentives while allocating risk appropriately. The standard model examines this problem in the context of procuring a single indivisible good that is easily defined but is characterised by...

Conditional on the decision to enter the market for immature technology, we test for the effects that trust – as proxied by the context in which the negotiating parties met – has on the likelihood that these negotiations are successful. Using a randomised dataset of 860 university-firm and...

It is with great pleasure that we introduce this Special Issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics on “Innovation and Good Policy”, which is drawn from a series of presentations made at the Fourth Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference held at the National Taiwan University,...