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EconometricaWe explore the deliberate infusion of ambiguity into the design of contracts. We show that when the agent is ambiguity‐averse and hence chooses an action that maximizes their minimum utility, the principal can strictly gain from using an ambiguous contract, and this gain can be arbitrarily high.
Dütting, Paul +3 more
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Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler +5 more
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The Impact of IFRS 15 on Earnings Quality in businesses such as hotels: critical evidence from the Iraqi environment. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019 The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of IFRS 15 adoption on contracts’ revenue from customers in the amount and the quality of accounting profits in the Iraqi environment which are known for their volatility, essential continuity and ...
Anmar Muhsein Hameed +2 more
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Emulsion cold mix asphalt in the UK: A decade of site and laboratory experience
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online), 2019 Cold mix asphalt manufactured using bitumen emulsion, by its very nature, has struggled to gain market penetration in the UK due to lack of design guidance and specifications and the need to comply with prevailing hot mix asphalt specification ...
Dennis Day +2 more
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Endogenous Market Structures and Contract Theory. Delegation, principal-agent contracts, screening, franchising and tying [PDF]
I study the role of unilateral strategic contracts for firms active in markets with price competition and endogenous entry. Traditional results change substantially when the market structure is endogenous rather than exogenous.
Etro Federico
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Somatic items used in depression assessments can potentially overlap with symptoms related to physical illness, including systemic sclerosis (SSc). No studies have looked at whether somatic depression items may be influenced by diffuse versus limited SSc disease subtypes, which are associated with varying degrees of symptom presentation.
Sophie Hu +110 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective We examined whether 18 months of strength training in individuals with knee varus alignment and medial tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (OA) reduced knee joint loads during walking compared to an attention control group. Methods This study was a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that compared the effects of strength training to a ...
Stephen P. Messier +12 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study explores the lightweight potential of laser additive‐manufactured NiTi triply periodic minimal surface sheet lattices. It systematically investigates the effects of relative density and unit cell size on surface quality, deformation recovery, compression behavior, and energy absorption.
Haoming Mo +3 more
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Ökonomisches Denken und die Anfänge der tschechischen Reformation
Studia Historica Brunensia, 2016 The author deals with economic thinking in the general determination of production and exchange of material and ideal values between people going beyond the common determination of description and reflection of economic activity of manufacturing, trade ...
Zdeněk Uhlíř
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Are flexible contracts bad for workers? Evidence from job satisfaction data [PDF]
, 2007 If workers can choose between permanent and flexible contracts, compensating wage differentials should arise to equalize on-the-job utility in the two types of contracts.
Green, C, Heywood, J S
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