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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Relational contracting"”.
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Levels of asset specificity in relational contracting
… we take Baker, Gibbons, and Murphy’s (2002) relational contracting model, and use it as the vehicle for the analysis. Changing the bargaining protocol assumed by those authors results in a model in which the integration choice is affected in a non-trivial way by realized asset specificity.
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Essays in experimental economics on contract design
… contains three related essays which examine contracting environments with moral hazard. I use laboratory experiments to study how across treatment variations affect contractual outcomes including the types of contracts that principals design, the overall efficiency of the contractual …
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Risk transfer in operational public private partnerships in the education sector
… modified Transaction Cost Economics framework, relational contracting and the relational theory of risk this research sought to address this gap by examining whether risks have been transferred as intended. Planned levels of risk allocation were identified by analysing the procurement documents …
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Investigation of Contractual Specification and Implementation of Relational Approaches in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects
… which can mitigate transaction hazard impacts. Relational contracting includes a set of principles such as flexibility and effective communication, which promote cooperative behavior and advance mutually beneficial outcomes for stakeholders. A relational contract can include different relational …
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The Structure and Nature of Vertical Co-ordination and Regulation Systems in the Kenyan Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Export Value Chain: Transaction Cost Approach
… property rights, forced the parties’ to rely on relational contracting anchored on supply reliability. It was for supply reliability reason that the exporters were willing to bear high transaction costs of contracting smallholders, hence enabling smallholders’ entry and stay in the value chain. …
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Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation
… braiding (intertwining) of formal and informal (relational) contracting to propel cooperation and undermine opportunism. Third, the “low-powered enforcement” approach towards these transactions (rejecting expectation damages or specific performance but granting reliance damages for violations of …
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Fairness in Dispute: Understanding the Principles of Equity, Equality, and Reciprocity in Federal Procurement Contracting
… an ethical construct within federal procurement contracting using 3,548 contract dispute decisions published by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) between 2007 and 2021. It employed a multi-faceted, mixed method research design at macro, mezzo, and micro levels that used a blend …
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Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance
… In the third chapter I present a model of relational contracting in which the principal's type determines the probability that effort generates high output, and where this type is private information. In this setting the bonus payments will be driven by the agent's beliefs, and by the …
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Essays in Development Economics and Trade
… these barriers. Informed by a dynamic model of relational contracting, we run a field experiment leveraging these technological tools to provide exogenous variation in (1) search frictions and (2) trust frictions (adverse selection and moral hazard) in a large international import market. In our …
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Essays on Firms and Technology in Development Economics
… these barriers. Informed by a dynamic model of relational contracting, we run a field experiment leveraging these technological tools to provide exogenous variation in (1) search frictions and (2) trust frictions (adverse selection and moral hazard) in a large international import market. In our …
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The institutionalization of professional communities: Insights from studies of professionals in Hungary
… community institutions and relying on long-term relational contracting (or integration) for the governance of contractual relations. 4.2: There is a trade-off between relying on professional community institutions and relying on market reputational mechanisms for the governance of contractual …