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Contentious Contracts

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  • HEGE, Ulrich
  • VIALA, Pascale

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This paper offers an explanation of rationally contracts where incompeteness refers to unforeseen contingencies. Agents enter a relationship with two-sided moral hazard in which a commitment to discard parts of the joint resources may be ex ante efficient.

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  • HEGE, Ulrich & VIALA, Pascale, 1997. "Contentious Contracts," Cahiers de recherche 9711, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
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    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law

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