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The family contracts
The family contracts is a manuscript of poetry that explores the nexus of motherhood, family history, and place, particularly the suburbs as the site of the family home. It is a work at once expansive in its reach toward the past and also incredibly insular in its exploration of the construct of …
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On Hypothetical Contracts
<p>My dissertation develops a critique of Rawlsian social contract theory by arguing that the normative component of democratic practices must be grounded in nonpolitical reasons. With John Rawls’s rights-based approach, social contract theory has strongly resurfaced by focusing on consent as the …
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Psychological Contracts in Coaching
The research sets out to explore the influence of the coach’s unconscious mind on the coaching process and to the answer the question, How does the coach’s unconscious mind influence the coaching process? This research is based on the psychodynamic concept that the unconscious mind is omnipresent …
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
The thesis studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts which …
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Essays on dynamic contracts
… dissertation consists of three essays on dynamic contracts. Chapter One studies a dynamic principal-agent model in which the agent continuously works on a project which may yield a success. The principal cannot observe the success, but she observes imperfect signals over time after the agent stops …
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Transformable Discreet Log Contracts
Since Bitcoin and the Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO)model wereintroduced by Satoshi Nakamoto over a decade ago, there have been many important issues identified with the UTXO model; the most important being that it is hard to extend the model to accommodate more complex use cases, such as those …
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Options on shipbuilding contracts
… At the same time, practically all shipbuilding contracts contain option elements, the value of which most industry players do not know how to calculate. Newbuilding options give shipowners closing newbuilding contracts a right, but not an obligation, to enter into additional newbuilding …
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Arbitration In International Administrative Contracts And Administrative Contracts With International Dimensions In The UAE.
… in disputes concerning administrative contracts with an international dimension – i.e. contracts between public authorities in the United Arab State (UAE) and foreign companies, as well as contracts concluded between local parties but indirectly generate results of international …
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Overconfidence and Contracts : An Experiment
… whether overconfidence affects the choice over contracts in a real-effort task by using three different measures of overconfidence: miscalibration, illusion of control, and overplacement. We find that overplacement, which is the only measure related to the task, has a significant effect on the …
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Procurement Contracts and Second Sourcing
Second, we analyze a procurement model where a procurer obtains an indivisible service from a contractor. The quality of this service is variable. Quality is determined by effort, investment and the realization of a random variable. Neither quality nor investment is verifiable. This means the …
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Optimal Contracts for Legal Services
This dissertation characterizes optimal contracts for legal services in the presence of asymmetric information. The lawyer-client relationship examined is an application of the general principal-agent problem. The agent (lawyer) takes an action that, together with the realization of a random …
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Firms, contracts, and trade structure
… trade, in which the incomplete nature of contracts governing international transactions leads to the emergence of product cycles. Following the property-rights approach to the theory of the firm, the same force that creates product cycles, i.e. incomplete contracts, opens the door to a …
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Valuation of shipbuilding option contracts
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2001.
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Relational contracts, incentives and information
… and functioning of self-enforcing incentive contracts under imperfect observability, using a model of repeated agency that allows for both common and private performance monitoring. When performance measures are mutually observed, optimal relational agreements always keep the parties on the …
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Portfolio strategies in supply contracts
… industrial buyers have focused on long-term contracts for many of their purchasing needs. Recently, however, some high-tech manufacturers have started looking at more flexible contracts for non-strategic components, which enables them to buy from a variety of suppliers and the spot market. We …
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Effective contracts in supply chains
… the importance of implementing effective contracts in supply chains. In this thesis, we study several issues in supply chain contracts. In the first part of the thesis, we study the impact of effort in a supply chain with multiple retailers. The costly effort engaged by a retailer may …
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From Legal Contracts to Formal Specifications
… recently with the advent of blockchain, smart contracts, LegalTech and IoT technologies. Popular software engineering methods, including agile ones, are unsuitable for such outcome-critical software. Instead, formal specifications are crucial for implementing smart contracts to ensure they …
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