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Thinking about contingencies, designing covenants, and seeing through their implications is costly. Parties to a contract accordingly use heuristics and leave it incomplete. The paper develops a model of limited cognition and examines its consequences for contractual design. (JEL D23, D82, D86, L22)

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Paper provided by University of Toulouse 1 Capitole in its series Open Access publications from University of Toulouse 1 Capitole with number http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr/187/.

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Date of creation: Mar 2009
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Publication status: Published in American Economic Review (2009-03) v.99, p.265-294
Handle: RePEc:ner:toulou:http://neeo.univ-tlse1.fr/187/

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• D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
• D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
• D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
• L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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