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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 This paper studies the costs and benefits of delegating decisions to superiorly informed agents relative to the use of rigid, non discretionary contracts.
Jean Marc Tallon +2 more
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Smart Contracts Contracts [PDF]
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020 This paper explores the connection between software contracts and smart contracts. Despite the assonance, these two terms denote quite different concepts: software contracts are logical properties of software components, while smart contracts are programs executed on blockchains. What is the relation between them?
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Piattaforme digitali e contratto. | Digital platforms and contracts.
European Journal of Privacy Law & Technologies, 2022 La disciplina del contratto è – come tutta la società – rivoluzionata dall’avvento delle piattaforme digitali. Nascono nuovi soggetti, beni, opportunità e problemi, che pongono l’esigenza di nuove discipline e finanche di nuove tecniche normative idonee ...
Roberto Carleo
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European Journal of Combinatorics, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Golovach, Petr A. +3 more
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Buildings, 2022 A pandemic is a force majeure event, and contracting parties can invoke conditions under force majeure to minimize liability for unforeseen, uncontrollable, and unavoidable circumstances. This study develops a conceptual model to assist in the management
Aaron Anil Chadee +6 more
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Buildings, 2023 The construction industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a significant sector in the Middle East, with annual expenditures surpassing USD 120 billion.
Reda Abdelshafy Abougamil +2 more
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The Complexity of Contracts [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Computing, 2020 We initiate the study of computing (near-)optimal contracts in succinctly representable principal-agent settings. Here optimality means maximizing the principal's expected payoff over all incentive-compatible contracts---known in economics as "second-best" solutions. We also study a natural relaxation to approximately incentive-compatible contracts. We
Paul Duetting +2 more
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TreatJS: Higher-Order Contracts for JavaScript [PDF]
, 2015 TreatJS is a language embedded, higher-order contract system for JavaScript which enforces contracts by run-time monitoring. Beyond providing the standard abstractions for building higher-order contracts (base, function, and object contracts), TreatJS's ...
Keil, Matthias, Thiemann, Peter
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Mediated Contracts and Mechanism Design [PDF]
, 2010 This note relates the mechanisms that are based on mediated contracts of Rahman and Obara (2010) to the mechanisms of Myerson (1982). It shows that the mechanisms in Myerson (1982) are more general in that they encompass the mechanisms based on mediated ...
Strausz, Roland
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On Delegation under Relational Contracts [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper, a principal’s decision between delegating two tasks or handling one of the two tasks herself is analyzed. We assume that the principal uses both, formal contracts and informal agreements sustained by the value of future relationships ...
Gürtler, Oliver
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