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and their impact on corporate operations and the contracting parties. After the presentation of individual contract … the article we describe the key features of venture capital contracts, the characteristics of selected contract elements … contracting practice …
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This Article identifies and examines the principal-agent problem as it arises in the context of contract preparation … made. The preliminary task of preparing the contract, however, is not viewed as part of the economic agency analysis. This … respect to the particular task of preparing the written contract. While preparing the contract on behalf or for the benefit of …
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incentive contract, whereas the agent does not observe the principal's motive and creates more organizational frictions as he …
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Chapter 11 bankruptcy provides firms with broad latitude to reject certain executory contracts, which are contracts whose terms have not been fully executed. We focus on the impact of this feature of the Bankruptcy Code by examining one of the most common executory contracts, operating leases....
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contracting clarity. Clarity refers to the extent to which the terms of a relational contract, or subjective assessment can be … communicate, contracting clarity and hence the incentive effect of subjectivity diminish. Accordingly, firms should reduce their …
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The term “liberty of contract” is usually associated with the doctrine that the due process clause of the United States … free-market advocates embrace the liberty of contract doctrine because they are averse to State interference with private … market transactions. But the term is ironic because a contract is only legally binding if courts will enforce it. Since …
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) contract or a recurring option contract with a fixed benchmark rate. In a model with an indefinite number of periods, the … increases with the rate of the performance fee and decreases with the level of HWM and the option contract benchmark rate. Both …
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This paper investigates the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on CEO compensation, using panel data constructed for the S&P 1500 firms on CEO compensation, financial returns, and reported accounting income. Empirically SOX (i) changes the relationship between a firm's abnormal returns and...
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