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Regulating unproductive contract adaptation: A payment deduction mechanism

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  • Wenqin Zhong
  • Ligang Ren
  • Mengyi Wang

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To the best of our knowledge, our paper offers a first attempt to uncover a payment deduction mechanism for regulating unproductive contract adaptation. Our model uncovers that the payment deduction mechanism can expropriate the ex post unproductive profit of a contractor. Using the data from California Department of Transportation, we confirm the positive effect of ex post payment deduction on ex post unproductive profit. Our estimates are robust to different estimation methods with different types of standard errors and the potential endogeneity bias. The payment deduction mechanism offers general applications to constrain ineffective contract implementation in the infrastructure industry.

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  • Wenqin Zhong & Ligang Ren & Mengyi Wang, 2025. "Regulating unproductive contract adaptation: A payment deduction mechanism," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 46(4), pages 2237-2248, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:46:y:2025:i:4:p:2237-2248
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.4120
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