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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Incomplete Contracts"”.
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THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSATS.
THE LAW&ECONOMICS OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS: THREE ESSAYS The present thesis is essentially devoted to exploring the legal consequences of bounded rationality. This concept, due to H. Simon, constitutes one of the first erosion of classical economics. In particular: in the traditional economics …
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Essays on R&D, Innovation and Patents: Empirical Constructs and *Policy Analysis of Uncertainty
… rights are not necessarily desirable. Using an incomplete contracts framework, we show that optimal patent policies will exploit the risk of post-issuance invalidation so as to induce the patentee to provide a more complete disclosure of the prior art to the Patent Office. Such information …
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The effect of technological complexity on innovation performance, employee entrepreneurship and mobility: three essays
… firms may occur without asymmetric information, incomplete contracts or resource constraints. In essay 3 I look at how technological complexity affects decisions to engage in employee entrepreneurship and mobility within the context of the U.S. semiconductor industry. The dissertation highlights …
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… in municipal finance in Chile, using the incomplete contracts approach. In each of the papers, I draw lessons for institutional design.
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Firms, contracts, and trade structure
… international trade. In particular, I develop an incomplete-contracting, property-rights model of the boundaries of the firm, which I then incorporate into a standard trade model with imperfect competition and product differentiation. The model pins down the boundaries of multinational firms as …
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Investigation of Contractual Specification and Implementation of Relational Approaches in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects
… asset specificity, imperfect information and incomplete contracts, which can further promote opportunistic behavior between parties. Although contracts are designed to govern projects and curb opportunism, their efficacy is limited by these transaction hazards. Therefore, the development of …