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Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali
Ecology and SocietyContracts allocate rights, obligations, and risks between various parties to achieve specific results. In response to slow progress to deliver safe drinking water to rural populations, governments across Africa are increasingly introducing contracts with
Johannes Wagner +2 more
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Social Welfare Versus Inequality Concerns in an Incomplete Contract Experiment
Social Science Research Network, 2010 We study a situation where two players first choose a sharing rule, then invest into a joint production process, and then split joint benefits. We investigate how social preferences determine investments.
Marco Faravelli +3 more
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Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021 Pollution from livestock and poultry is the main source of rural pollution, which directly affects the rural ecological environment as well as the quality and safety of agricultural products.
Hui Mao, Yong Fu, G. Cao, Shaojian Chen
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Incomplete Contracts and the Internal Organization of Firms [PDF]
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013 We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on decentralization within firms. We first discuss how the concept of incomplete contracts shapes our views about the organization of decision-making. We then overview the empirical evidence on the determinants of decentralization and on the effects of decentralization on firm performance.
Aghion, Philippe +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 2022 Outsourcing is a phenomenon regularly explored through two theories: transaction cost economics and incomplete contract theory. The second approach is frequently seen as an extension of the first but is it right to do so?
Quentin Commine
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Distance and FDI When Contracts are Incomplete [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 We introduce incomplete outsourcing contracts in an otherwise standard model of MNEs based on the trade-off between proximity and concentration. This has both positive and normative implications. As to the former, incomplete outsourcing contracts can account for the observed emergence of FDIs in large markets not only when trade costs are large but ...
OTTAVIANO, GIANMARCO IREO PAOLO +1 more
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EconomiesThe productivity of smallholder coffee cultivation is declining due to ageing trees, making the rejuvenation of coffee trees with superior seeds essential.
Adi Haryono +4 more
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An Integrated Approach to Pricing Catastrophe Reinsurance
Risks, 2017 We propose an integrated approach straddling the actuarial science and the mathematical finance approaches to pricing a default-risky catastrophe reinsurance contract.
Carolyn W. Chang, Jack S. K. Chang
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Cracking the Code: Genotype–Phenotype Correlation Models in Sarcoglycanopathies
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Sarcoglycanopathies are among the most severe limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD), though milder presentations have been described. These diseases are primarily caused by missense variants, but the limited predictability of their effect on protein maturation, complex formation, and transport has hindered reliable genotype ...
Leonela Luce +72 more
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Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2011 We present a method of optimal hedging and pricing of equity-linked life insurance products in an incomplete discrete-time financial market. A pure endowment life insurance contract with guarantee is used as an example.
Norman Josephy +2 more
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