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"Yes Men," Integrity, and the Optimal Design of Incentive Contracts 0 0 0 13 0 0 4 126
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 229 0 0 0 623
Allocating control in agency problems with limited liability and sequential hidden actions 0 0 0 134 0 0 1 447
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 77
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 25
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 0 142 0 0 2 489
Ausgewählte Anwendungen der Theorie unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 23 0 0 2 98
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 24 0 0 2 67
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 41 0 0 1 162
Book Review of “Bargaining Theory with Applications” (Muthoo, 1999) 0 0 0 92 0 0 3 280
Book Review of “Contract Theory” (Bolton and Dewatripont, 2005) 0 0 0 242 0 2 6 927
Book Review of “Inflation and the Enforcement of Contracts” (Renner, 1999) 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 74
Book Review of “On Voting: a public choice approach” (Tullock, 1998) 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 104
Book Review of “Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law” (Anderson and McChesney, 2003) 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 130
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 0 122 0 0 0 475
Can Coasean bargaining justify Pigouvian taxation? 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 240
Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 201 0 0 2 525
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 32 0 1 2 222
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 1 8 0 0 2 46
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 190 1 2 5 536
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 142 0 1 4 468
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 3 13 0 0 3 70
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 0 1 32 0 0 2 22
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 0 1 6 0 1 6 18
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 35
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 0 13 0 1 2 29
Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Externalities: An Experimental Study 0 1 2 24 1 2 6 64
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 167
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 136 0 0 2 210
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 44 1 1 1 155
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 73 0 1 3 234
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 49
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 80 0 0 3 373
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 33 0 0 1 146
Der Effekt von Nachverhandlungen auf Investitionen mit Eigen- und Fremdwirkung 0 0 0 12 0 0 2 78
Der Lock in Effekt und das Hold up Problem 0 1 1 126 0 1 3 488
Die Bedeutung von privater Information für Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Käufern und Verkäufern 0 0 0 14 0 0 2 117
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 29 0 0 1 126
Do Sellers Offer Menus of Contracts to Separate Buyer Types? An Experimental Test of Adverse Selection Theory 0 0 1 66 0 0 1 149
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 71 0 2 4 273
Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 179 0 0 0 763
Garbled Elections 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 85
Garbled Elections 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 147
Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 99 0 0 1 417
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 76
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 93
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Contract Theory 0 0 0 84 1 1 2 193
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Moral Hazard Theory 0 0 0 29 1 1 2 29
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 33 0 0 3 85
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 1 27 0 1 6 52
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 29
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 0 0 12 1 2 10 46
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 0 36 0 1 1 40
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 6
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 0 1 2 40
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 35
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 40 0 1 3 81
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 42
Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information 0 1 1 284 0 1 1 801
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 24 1 3 3 81
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 34 3 3 4 129
Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework 0 0 0 38 0 1 1 196
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 1 543 0 1 9 1,228
Investments as Signals of Outside Options 0 0 0 76 0 0 1 263
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 117
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 54
Job Protection Laws and Agency Problems Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 91 0 0 3 451
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 0 0 82 1 2 2 186
Joint Ownership and Incomplete Contracts: The Case of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 1 102 0 0 3 440
Joint Ownership and the Hold-up Problem Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 101 0 1 2 333
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 0 0 27 0 0 4 145
Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 141
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 221
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 42 1 1 2 84
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 1 29 0 0 4 34
On Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 58
On Second Price Auctions and Imperfect Competition 0 0 0 107 1 1 1 355
On contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 39 0 0 1 169
On simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 62 0 0 3 226
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 1 1 151 0 1 2 455
On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation 0 0 1 56 0 0 2 186
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 13
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 18
Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights in Dynamic R&D Alliances 0 0 0 158 1 1 3 475
Optimal Contracting in Agency with Verifiable Ex Post Information 0 0 0 117 0 0 1 441
Optimal Contracting with Verifiable Ex Post Signals 0 0 0 83 0 1 1 446
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 6
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 38
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 24
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 38
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 0 3 25 0 0 5 53
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 9 0 2 5 26
Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information 0 0 0 99 0 0 0 333
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 22
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 43
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 0 197 0 0 2 425
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 0 52 0 0 1 344
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 31 0 0 2 61
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 30
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 34
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 58
Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks 0 0 0 183 1 1 5 467
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 10 0 2 2 54
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 73
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 2 61 0 1 5 277
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 1 172 0 2 6 312
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 118 0 0 1 361
Repeated Moral Hazard, Limited Liability, and Renegotiation 0 0 0 140 2 2 4 430
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 34 0 0 2 142
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 110 0 0 1 259
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: The case of risk-neutrality 0 1 1 126 1 4 8 321
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 129 1 2 3 456
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 108 0 1 1 413
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 134 1 1 2 430
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 298
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 229
Should a principal hire one agent or two agents to perform two sequential tasks? 0 0 0 52 0 0 4 157
Signaling an Outside Option 0 0 0 28 0 0 1 132
Sollten Haftungsregeln durch Strafen ergänzt werden? 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 71
Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 64 0 1 6 227
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 0 99 0 0 1 163
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 59 0 0 0 197
The Costs and Benefits of Additional Information in Agency Models with Endogenous Information Structures 0 0 0 79 0 0 3 179
The Hold-Up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 2 741 2 2 12 1,592
The Management of Innovation: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 67 1 1 4 118
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 46
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 1 2 8 0 1 4 25
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 0 2 13 0 0 2 24
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 20
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 30
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 43 0 0 1 92
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 110
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 92 1 1 4 190
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 26
Unmöglichkeitstheoreme bei asymmetrischer Information 0 0 0 423 1 1 3 641
Unvollständige Verträge und die Grenzen der Firma 0 0 1 36 0 0 2 142
Vertikale Unternehmenskooperationen 0 0 0 545 0 1 1 1,034
Vertragstheorie: Zum Nobelpreis 2016 für Oliver Hart und Bengt Holmström 0 1 1 258 1 3 5 346
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 13
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 0 0 0 327 0 0 3 1,213
Total Working Papers 0 7 34 10,803 28 76 323 31,807
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Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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"Yes men", integrity, and the optimal design of incentive contracts 0 0 0 63 2 3 5 297
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 1,111
Anderson, T. L., and McChesney, F. S. (Eds.): Property Rights – Cooperation, Conflict, and Law 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 34
Asymmetric information and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 14 2 2 2 71
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 1 17 0 0 3 143
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 2 37 1 1 7 186
Book Review 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 54
Book reviews 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 56
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 0 29 0 1 4 187
Can contracts solve the hold-up problem? Experimental evidence 0 1 2 159 1 4 11 413
Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases 0 0 4 195 1 5 24 873
Completely relationship-specific investments, transaction costs, and the property rights theory 0 0 10 79 0 2 20 99
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 1 1 12 499 5 8 54 956
Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information 0 0 2 18 0 0 4 77
Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study 0 0 8 23 0 1 14 35
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 25 2 3 6 113
Cooling Off in Negotiations: Does it Work? 0 0 0 23 0 0 3 115
Die Bedeutung von privater Information f³r Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Kõufern und Verkõufern 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 169
Do sellers offer menus of contracts to separate buyer types? An experimental test of adverse selection theory 0 1 2 72 1 3 5 143
ENDOGENOUS PUNISHMENTS IN AGENCY WITH VERIFIABLE EX POST INFORMATION * 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 248
Erratum to 'On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation': [International Review of Law and Economics (2000), 20, 371-382] 0 0 0 22 0 0 0 83
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 668
Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard 0 0 0 77 0 1 1 210
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 0 0 4 95 0 0 6 253
Hidden action and outcome contractibility: An experimental test of moral hazard theory 0 0 1 217 1 1 4 305
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 5 46 0 1 8 99
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts 0 0 4 70 0 1 8 88
Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction? 0 0 10 103 0 0 13 110
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 16 2 2 3 104
Incomplete contracts, limited liability, and the optimality of joint ownership 0 1 1 12 1 2 2 47
Incomplete contracts, shared ownership, and investment incentives 0 0 0 15 1 2 2 72
Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information 0 0 0 108 0 0 0 246
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 5 556 0 1 16 1,707
Information gathering and the hold-up problem in a complete contracting framework 0 0 0 61 0 0 1 155
Investments as signals of outside options 0 0 0 28 1 1 1 130
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 67
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 0 1 66 1 2 5 192
Job protection laws and agency problems under asymmetric information 0 0 0 76 1 1 7 328
Joint Ownership And Incomplete Contracts: The Case Of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 1 26 0 0 2 137
Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 68 0 1 1 186
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 0 0 75 1 2 3 221
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 357
Moral hazard and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 12 2 2 3 45
On Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 126 0 0 5 295
On second-price auctions and imperfect competition 0 0 0 76 0 0 1 220
On synergies and vertical integration 0 0 0 122 1 1 1 329
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 0 335 1 2 7 632
On the joint use of liability and safety regulation 0 0 1 99 1 1 7 309
On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries 0 0 3 23 0 0 5 43
Optimal allocation of ownership rights in dynamic R&D alliances 0 0 1 115 0 1 5 293
Optimal ownership of public goods in the presence of transaction costs 0 0 1 10 2 2 4 49
Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered 0 0 0 8 4 4 4 54
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information 0 1 3 34 0 1 4 85
Optimal selling strategies when buyers may have hard information 0 0 2 101 0 0 3 279
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 7 1 1 1 50
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 1 7 0 0 3 502
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 3 22 2 2 5 142
Pollution claim settlements reconsidered: Hidden information and bounded payments 0 1 1 33 0 1 2 70
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 19 0 0 2 74
Public goods, property rights, and investment incentives: An experimental investigation 0 0 1 9 2 3 5 32
Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered 0 0 1 10 2 2 4 46
Public versus private ownership: Quantity contracts and the allocation of investment tasks 0 1 4 307 3 8 21 658
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 63 0 0 5 271
Public–private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 1 1 1 63 1 2 8 218
REPEATED MORAL HAZARD AND CONTRACTS WITH MEMORY: THE CASE OF RISK‐NEUTRALITY 0 0 1 7 0 0 4 119
Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 49 1 1 1 133
Randomization in coalition contracts 0 0 0 3 2 2 2 68
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 42 1 1 2 129
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 216 1 1 7 640
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 91 0 1 5 375
Simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 223 0 0 2 728
Task scheduling and moral hazard 0 1 2 38 0 1 3 130
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 0 25 1 3 7 168
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 128
The Hold-up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 843
The costs and benefits of additional information in agency models with endogenous information structures 0 0 0 61 1 1 2 149
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 70
The management of innovation: Experimental evidence 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 62
The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information 0 0 0 8 2 2 3 52
The proper scope of government reconsidered: Asymmetric information and incentive contracts 0 2 26 98 0 4 32 114
The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract 0 0 3 13 0 0 5 33
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 31 3 4 6 133
When should the government own the physical assets needed to provide public goods? 0 1 24 27 1 3 32 41
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 0 0 2 392 1 1 14 1,263
Total Journal Articles 2 12 157 6,068 64 117 505 21,219


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