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The Contractual Cryptoeconomy: An Arrow of Time for Economics

The Journal of The British Blockchain Association, 2019
We consider the potential blockchains have for building a framework for all manner of contracts that can characterize an economy using the unifying idea of control over their duration. Such a contractual cryptoeconomy (CCE)
Prateek Goorha
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Opportunism in the First Generation of Buy-back Contracts [PDF]

Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān, 2015
[English] The study of oil and gas contracts require coherent theoretical framework that links different disciplines. Transaction cost economics present an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing contractual issues.
Mehdi Akhavan, Mohammad Medi Askari, Maghsood Emani   +2 more
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Strategies to Foster Competition for the Market in the Urban Bus Sector in Developing Countries

Infrastructures, 2020
Different mechanisms have been adopted by developed and developing countries over the last decades to provide urban bus services. Although competitive tendering has been considered the standard method to procure urban bus services, it cannot be treated ...
Gabriel Stumpf Duarte de Carvalho, Rui Cunha Marques   +1 more
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Contractual framework of private-public partnership: The sui generis nature of PPP as a result of the holistic approach [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2014
The holistic (comprehensive] approach to the methodological framework for the analysis of public-private partnership is essential presumption for the transformation of the public and private interests from the conflicting ones to the parallel and ...
Cvetković Predrag
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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, Bloom, N., Van Reenen, J.   +2 more
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Toward a Less Incomplete Contract: Merging Smart Contracts and Esg Metrics Contracts

Tilburg Law Review
Growing attention to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns has prompted companies to incorporate conditions and obligations related to ESG indicators into their contracts and other agreements.
Fernanda de Araujo Meirelles Magalhães, Bruno Vieira   +1 more
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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, Turrini A.   +1 more
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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, Goknur Selen Kocak, José Verdú‐Díaz, Jorge Alonso‐Pérez, Kristl G. Claeys, Tanya Stojkovic, Gorka Fernández‐Eulate, Pascal Laforêt, Najoua Miladi, Filipe Di Pace, Cristiane Araujo Martins Moreno, Edmar Zanoteli, Conrad C. Weihl, Volker Straub, Ana Töpf, Jordi Díaz‐Manera, Sarcoglycan European Cohort Consortium, Adele D′Amico, Adolfo López de Munain, Alicia Alonso‐Jiménez, Ana Camacho‐Salas, Andrea Gangfuß, Andrés Nascimento, Anna Sarkozy, Anneke J. van der Kooi, Arturo Fraga‐Bau, Béla Melegh, Benedikt Schoser, Bjarne Udd, Blaz Koritnik, Carlos Ortez, Chiara Marini Bettolo, Chiara Panicucci, Claudia Weiss, Claudio Bruno, Claudio Semplicini, Cristina Dominguez‐González, Cristina Garrido, David Gómez‐Andrés, Edoardo Malfatti, Elena Pegoraro, Elke De Vos, Francina Munell, Gabriele Dekomien, Giacomo Pietro Comi, Giorgio Tasca, Isabelle Richard, Jan L. De Bleecker, Jana Haberlová, Jesper Helbo Storgaard, Johanna Palmio, John Vissing, Juan Carlos de Leon‐Hernández, Kinga Hadzsiev, Laura Costa‐Comellas, Lea Leonardis, Leroy ten Dam, Lidia González‐Quereda, Luca Bello, Luisa Politano, Manuela Santos, Marianne de Visser, Marie Rohlenová, Matteo Garibaldi, Michela Guglieri, Nicolas Deconinck, Nicoline Løkken, Omar Abdel‐Mannan, Pia Gallano, Roberto Fernández‐Torrón, Ulrike Schara‐Schmidt, Vincenzo Nigro, Vittoria Zangaro   +72 more
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Reframing Biodiversity and Social Capital through Incomplete Contracts

Journal of Sustainability
Terrestrial biodiversity conservation is severely limited due to a lack of knowledge about impending biodiversity losses. We introduce the application of incomplete continuous contracting theory to less or more biodiverse land trading in developed ...
Anna Auza, José Alberto Fuinhas
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Anorectal Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis: Clinical Phenotypes and Functional Patterns

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The aim of this study was to characterize specific physiologic defects in anorectal dysfunction in systemic sclerosis (SSc) using anorectal manometry (ARM), evaluate associations with gastrointestinal (GI) and extraintestinal clinical phenotypes, and explore potential serologic markers for risk stratification.
Timothy Kaniecki, Alireza Amindarolzarbi, Tsion Abdi, John Clarke, Michael Hughes, Ami A. Shah, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source