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Allocating control in agency problems with limited liability and sequential hidden actions [PDF]
This paper discusses the optimal organization of sequential agency problems with contractible control actions under limited liability. In each of two stages, a risk-neutral agent can choose an unobservable effort level. A success in the first stage makes
Patrick W. Schmitz
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Sorting the Good Guys from Bad: On the Optimality of Deterministic Audit with Ex-Ante Information Acquisition [PDF]
In a costly state verification model under commitment the principal may acquire a costly public and imperfectly revealing signal before or after contracting.
Annamaria Menichini, Peter Simmons
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Intellectual property license contracts: reflections on a prospective UNCITRAL project [PDF]
IP licenses are the leading lady of the information age. The economic and strategic significance of this contract archetype have grown exponentially over the past 40 years.
Tosato, Andrea
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Liability for Contractual Negotiations in English Law: Looking for the Litmus Test [PDF]
, 2009 Banakas, Stathis
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Pre-Contractual Reliance [PDF]
During contractual negotiations, parties often make (reliance) expenditures that would increase the surplus should a contract be made. This paper analyzes decisions to invest in pre-contractual reliance under alternative legal regimes.
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Omri Ben-Shahar
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The recovery of non-pecuniary loss in European contract law [PDF]
, 2017 Cabrelli, David
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Discrimination and Strategic Group Division in Tournaments [PDF]
The contracts we consider in this paper must solve three problems: moral hazard, insurance and discrimination. The moral hazard problem is that of providing the agents with incentives to perform in a way that maximizes the profit to the principal, when ...
Olesen, Henrik Ballebye, Olsen, Rene H.
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The Perimeters of Liability for Negligent Misrepresentation in Maryland [PDF]
, 1989 McCandless Kidd, Andrew C.J.
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La responsabilidad precontractual en el Derecho contractual europeo [PDF]
, 2010 García Rubio, María Paz +1 more
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