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Long-term Relationships Governed by Short-term Contracts

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  • Crawford, Vincent P

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This paper studies the effects of contract duration on the incentive to invest in a relationship when its parties are rational and have perfect information, and contracts are complete, ex cept that short-term contracts specify only current-period actions. T hen, short-term contracting distorts investment decisions only when t he efficient plan involves mainly sunk-cost investment and the relati onship plays a consumption-smoothing role. There is a general, but no t universal, tendency to underinvest. Copyright 1988 by American Economic Association.

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Article provided by American Economic Association in its journal American Economic Review.

Volume (Year): 78 (1988)
Issue (Month): 3 (June)
Pages: 485-99

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Handle: RePEc:aea:aecrev:v:78:y:1988:i:3:p:485-99

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