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Joint Ownership And Incomplete Contracts: The Case Of Perfectly Substitutable Investments

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  • Stephanie Rosenkranz
  • Patrick W. Schmitz

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Important results of the property rights approach based on incomplete contracts, as outlined by Hart (1995), say that all ownership structures lead to underinvestment and that joint ownership cannot be optimal, provided that investments are strategic complements and affect human capital only. We show that when only the total amount invested matters, these conclusions are still true in a static setting, even if investments are in physical capital. However, if the parties can invest and generate a surplus twice, then joint ownership may imply first-best investments in the first stage and can well be the optimal ownership structure.

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Article provided by LMU Munich School of Management in its journal Schmalenbach Business Review.

Volume (Year): 56 (2004)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 72-89

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Handle: RePEc:sbr:abstra:v:56:y:2004:i:1:p:72-89

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Keywords: Incomplete Contracts; Property Rights; Repeated Games.;

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Cited by:
  1. Andreas Roider, 2002. "Asset Ownership and Contractability of Interaction," Bonn Econ Discussion Papers bgse12_2002, University of Bonn, Germany, revised May 2003.
  2. Blonski, Matthias & Spagnolo, Giancarlo, 2002. "Relational Contracts and Property Rights," CEPR Discussion Papers 3460, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  3. Valeria Gattai & Piergiovanna Natale, 2012. "What makes a joint venture: micro evidence from Sino-Italian contracts," Working Papers 218, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised Jan 2012.
  4. Schmitz, Patrick W., 2008. "Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 99(3), pages 577-580, June.

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