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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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Paper Hege, Ulrich & Viala, Pascale, 1998.
"Contentious Contracts ,"
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