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Tales of Contract Enforcement in Transition

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  • Kossykh Yulia
  • Sarychev Andrey

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This paper proposes a dynamic theory of adjustment of the two contract enforcement mechanisms: use of collateral and coalitions employing multilateral punishment strategies. We show that in the aftermath of transition, both of these mechanisms fail to provide sufficient protection so that not only the new contracts are excessively simple to economize on enforcement, but also some contracts existing before the liberalization may actually break down.

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  • Kossykh Yulia & Sarychev Andrey, 2000. "Tales of Contract Enforcement in Transition," EERC Working Paper Series 98-267e, EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS.
    • Handle: RePEc:eer:wpalle:98-267e
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