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We develop a test for adverse selection and use it to examine private health insurance markets. In contrast to earlier papers that consider a purely private system or a system in which private insurance supplements a public system, we... more
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      EconomicsHealth CareContract TheoryHealth insurance
I study the implications of economic shocks for objective and subjective CEO performance evaluation. A shock perturbs pay-setting parties' information about the firm and the CEO. I argue that pay-setting parties then lack information they... more
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      Corporate GovernanceCEO compensationContract TheoryManaging subjectivity in performance assessment
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      Jewish LawComparative LawContractsContract Theory
It has long been standard in agency theory to search for incentive-compatible mechanisms on the assumption that people care only about their own material wealth. However, this assumption is clearly refuted by numerous experiments, and we... more
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      EconomicsAgency TheoryContract TheoryMechanism Design
The most of economic analysis of law uses economic efficiency as a normative criterion or for the purpose of positive analysis. The term Economic Efficiency refers to the relationship between aggregate benefits and costs to the... more
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      Public EconomicsLaw and EconomicsContract Theory
We compare the characteristics of real-world financial contracts to their counterparts in financial contracting theory. We do so by studying the actual contracts between venture capitalists (VCs) and entrepreneurs. The distinguishing... more
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      EconomicsContract TheoryVenture CapitalDeveloping Country
The interrelatedness between computer systems, networks, code, and traditional law and legal frameworks continues to pose a number of important and vexed questions. This report will consider one area of the relationship: legal recognition... more
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      Computer ScienceDistributed ComputingQuantum ComputingArtificial Intelligence
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      Contract LawJudgment and decision makingLaw and EconomicsContract Theory
This work demonstrate the application of the civil principle of the social function of the contract to the environmental protection, by the construction of the concept of environmental function of the contract. For this, it is necessary... more
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      Environmental LawContract LawSocial Contract TheoryContract Theory
The Theses LVI belong to a series of hitherto unpublished early manuscripts of the Dutch humanist and jurisconsult Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) that were acquired by the University of Leiden in 1864. It is not certain when the Theses were... more
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      Social TheoryPolitical PhilosophyPolitical TheoryWar Theory
Apresentação do modelo básico de sinalização com foco no artigo do Spence (1973) "Job Market Signaling".
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      Contract TheoryLabour Economics: flexible working practices; job satisfaction; employee and company performance; training and promotion linkages; labour market trends.Job MarketSinalização
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      Contract LawSocial Contract TheoryContract TheoryLaw of Contract
Nous analysons les déterminants des renégociations des crédits en France durant la période 1999-2015. Pour modéliser le processus de renégociation nous prenons en compte les caractéristiques du contrat de prêt, de l’entreprise et de la... more
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      FinanceEconometricsContract TheoryBanking and Finance
This essay argues that substantive fairness - defined here as fairness with respect to a contract’s terms - is a distinct virtue of good contracts. The essay begins by identifying two possible standards against which the fairness of a... more
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      Contract LawContract TheoryPrivate law
Certain altruistic phenomena in the workplace that exceed the bounds of contract theory can be explained within the framework of gift exchange theory. We discuss the application of gift exchange theory to interactions between an employer... more
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      Human Resource ManagementContract TheoryBusiness and ManagementIncentives
While prior research regarding strategic projects recognizes the tension inherent in interfirm relationships, less is understood of the impact of risk sharing in the design of the contracts guiding those relationships. This investigation... more
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      Project ManagementProject Risk ManagementContract TheoryRisk Management
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      Comparative LawCivil LawContractsContract Law
This paper empirically considers the role of preplanned exits (the investor's initial strategy to sell the investee firm via an acquisition or an initial public offering (IPO) at the time of initial contract with the entrepreneur), legal... more
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      EntrepreneurshipEconomicsGovernanceContract Theory
Rigidity of form, but liberty of content – Stipulatio and freedom of contract in the works of Friedrich Carl von Savigny The Roman stipulatio was one of the main interests of 19th-century German legal scholars who discussed freedom of... more
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      Legal HistoryContract TheoryPrivate lawSavigny
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Introduction to Contract Theories and The Justification of Contractual Obligations comprise Chapters 2 and 4 of Contract Theory (Oxford University Press, 2004). The book provides a comprehensive discussion of, and contribution to,... more
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      LawContract LawLegal TheoryContract Theory
We discuss the notion of ownership in economics, taking our point of departure in the Grossman-Hart-Moore property rights approach. We criticize the exclusive identification of ownership with residual rights to control in this approach,... more
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      Property RightsTheory of the FirmContract TheoryDruid
Kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende gelang Thomas Donaldson und Thomas D. Dunfee mit „Ties that Bind“, einen Ansatz der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik zu entwickeln, der den Eindruck einer neuen Stoßrichtung erweckte. Mit der Anwendung... more
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      Business EthicsSocial Contract TheoryContract TheoryContractualism
Real Estate Law: Fundamentals for The Development Process takes a pragmatic, transactional approach to real property law in an urban context, with an emphasis on walkable urban places (sometimes referred to herein as “WalkUPs”). This... more
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      Real EstateContract LawTaxationContract Theory
An Introduction to the Law of Restitution by Peter Birks changed my view on the doctrine of mistake. First ever extra curricular academic essay. Yet to complete Unjust Enrichment.
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This article presents results from the first statistically significant study of cost escalation in transportation infrastructure projects. Based on a sample of 258 transportation infrastructure projects worth US$90 billion and... more
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      Critical TheoryBusinessEntrepreneurshipOrganizational Behavior
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This paper tries to elucidate on the significant implications of Bonifacio’s idea of revolution.
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      Contract TheoryPhilippine HistoryFilipino PhilosophyAndres Bonifacio
Third parties protection has been an extensive issue for the shipping community over the last century. Although this problem has been solved to some extent in practice by various means of circumvention created by the industry, it remains... more
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      Shipping/ Transport LogisticsContract TheoryCarriage of Goods by Sea
Abstract: The present study aims to identify the main theories about promises of rewards, developed in the continental legal systems, and to argue that, under some circumstances, promises of rewards can be defined as conditional... more
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      Civil LawContract LawContract TheoryPromises
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Urban population in India has been rising rapidly as millions of migrants are moving to urban areas aspiring for higher earning and better living. The number of urban poor is also growing and a significant number of these poor find spaces... more
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      Development EconomicsApplied EconometricsLaw and EconomicsContract Theory
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"This book offers annotated translations of documents touching on Dutch admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge and his voyage to Asia between 1605 and 1608. These translations are aimed at a contemporary English-speaking Asian readership... more
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And to the extent to which this is an accurate account of the atmosphere that we shall be sharing during the days of this Congress, one implication is that it should also be possible for us not only to benefit from philosophy as... more
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      EconomicsPolitical PhilosophyContract TheoryMoral Philosophy
Hobbes’s political philosophy starts from a number of premises that are supposed to be self-evident, supplemented by various observations from experience. These statements are examined critically and in their interrelatedness in order to... more
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      LawJurisprudenceConstitutional LawCivil Law
Megaproject Planning and Management: Essential Readings contains the seminal articles from the growing body of research on megaproject planning and management along with an original introduction by the editor, Bent Flyvbjerg. The leading... more
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      Critical TheoryEntrepreneurshipOrganizational BehaviorInformation Systems
L'articolo ricostruisce la clausola di tolleranza nel sistema di diritto privato interno. Nella prima parte, il saggio esamina gli effetti del comportamento tollerante sul contratto: il mancato esercizio di un rimedio previsto dal... more
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      ContractsContract LawContract TheoryPrivate law
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      LawContract TheoryYale Law
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      Contract TheoryContractPrivate lawLegal Dogmatics
Back cover text: Megaprojects and Risk provides the first detailed examination of the phenomenon of megaprojects. It is a fascinating account of how the promoters of multi-billion dollar megaprojects systematically and self-servingly... more
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