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Good Enough for Government Work? An Incomplete Contracts Approach to the Use of Nonprofits in U.S. Federal Procurement

open access: yesNonprofit Policy Forum, 2019
This paper examines the use of the nonprofit organizational form to mitigate the impact of incomplete contracts in the public sector Transaction costs economics (TCE) predicts that the expense of incomplete contracts will rise with contract complexity ...
Thornton Jeremy, Lecy Jesse
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Optimization of Banking Contract Structure Based on Incomplete Contracting in non interest banking [PDF]

open access: yesجستارهای اقتصادی, 2020
Contractual incompleteness is essentially related to the “unverifiability” condition and “enforceability” condition. In the complex and uncertain economic environment, financial contract is incomplete.
Kamran Nadri   +3 more
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Individual and Institutional Ownership, Firm Age and Productivity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Competitiveness, 2021
Total factor productivity represents a dimension of output that cannot be attributed to factors of production; it is unique to the firm, and central to its competitiveness. We posit that ownership structure plays a key role in productivity.
Jun Du   +2 more
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Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation [PDF]

open access: yesEconometrica, 1988
When drawing up a contract, it is often impracticable for the parties to specify all the relevant contingencies. In particular, they may be unable to describe the states of the world in enough detail that an outsider (the courts) could later verify which state had occurred, and so the contract will be incomplete.
Hart, Oliver D., Moore, John
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Incomplete Social Contracts [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the European Economic Association, 2003
There is a long normative ‘Social Contract’ tradition that attempts to characterize ex-post income inequalities that are agreeable to all ‘behind a veil of ignorance.’ This paper takes a similar normative approach to characterize social decision-making procedures.
Aghion, Philippe, Bolton, Patrick
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Foundations of Incomplete Contracts [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economic Studies, 1999
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Oliver Hart, John Moore
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Cooperation under Incomplete Contracting [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
We examine the notion of the core when cooperation takes place in a setting with time and uncertainty. We do so in a two-period general equilibrium setting with incomplete markets. Market incompleteness implies that players cannot make all possible binding commitments regarding their actions at different date-events.
Habis Helga, Herings P. Jean-Jacques
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The Impact of Foundations of Contract on Essential Conditions for Validity of a Contract [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامه حقوق اسلامی, 2016
The foundation of the contract have a considerable effect on the interpretation of theconditions of the validity of contract, their position in the contract and theirimpression in the iranian law .This research surveys the impacts of the ...
Mozhde Abooie, mehdi Shahabi
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Understanding Theoretical Aspects of Outsourcing: Common Features and Discrepancies Between Transaction Costs Economics and Contractual Incompleteness

open access: yesInternational 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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A Nobel Prize for Property Rights Theory

open access: yesGames, 2017
This article provides a brief overview of the Property-Rights Theory of the firm, pioneered by Grossman and Hart (1986) and Hart and Moore (1990), and situates the theory in other literatures.
Richard Holden
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