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A Note on the Optimality of Bonus Pay 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 562
A Welfare Analysis of Competitive Insurance Markets with Vertical Differentiation and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 22 0 1 1 50
A theory of conscious parallelism 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 122
A theory of conscious parallelism 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 45
A theory of cooperative teams 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 145
Accidental Death and the Rule of Joint and Several Liability 0 0 0 21 0 0 2 208
Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality 0 0 0 146 0 2 3 498
Anti-Lemons: School Reputation and Educational Quality 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 101
Anti-Lemons: School Reputation, Relative Diversity, and Educational Quality 0 0 0 123 1 1 2 321
Authority and Contract 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 37
Behaviour and the Organization of the Firm 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 325
CONTINUOUS TIME REPEATED GAMES WITH RENEGOTIATION 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 132
Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large 0 5 24 273 0 6 28 456
Competition, collusion and free entry in spatial or differentiated product markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 31
Competition, tacit collusion and free entry 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 17
Complexity, Contract and the Employment Relationship 0 0 0 282 0 0 1 1,074
Conscious Parallelism and Predatory Pricing in a Contestable Market 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 350
Construction Contracts (or “How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?”) 0 0 0 286 1 2 3 1,435
Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?") 0 0 0 131 0 0 1 627
Continuous Time Repeated Games with Renegotiation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76
Contracting in the Shadow of the Law 0 0 0 52 0 0 3 201
Contracts Bargaining for Flows of Goods and Services in Finite Terms 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 127
Contracts Bargaining for Flows of Goods and Services in Finite Terms 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102
Contracts between Legal Persons 0 0 0 23 1 2 8 136
Contracts between Legal Persons 0 0 0 47 0 0 4 92
Crime can be a Giffen Good: The Role of Need in Criminal Labor Supply 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 11
Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts 0 0 0 98 0 1 3 734
Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 208
Decision, Contract and Emotion: Some Economics for a Complex and Confusing World 0 0 0 258 0 0 0 1,112
Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making and Performance Among Physicians 0 0 0 45 0 2 2 206
Doctor Decision Making and Patient Outcomes 0 4 30 30 1 7 38 38
EFFICIENT SPECIFIC INVESTMENTS, INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS, AND THE ROLE OF MARKET ALTERNATIVES 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 350
EFICIENCY AND RENEGOTIATION IN REPEATED GAMES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320
ENTRY, SUNK COSTS AND RENEGOTIATION IN DUOPOLY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 203
Efficiency and Renegotiation in Repeated Games 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 118
Efficiency and Renegotiation in Repeated Games 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 381
Efficiency and Renegotiation in Repeated Games 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 222
Efficient specific investments, incomplete contracts, and the role of market alternatives 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 35
Efficient specific investments, incomplete contracts, and the role of market alternatives 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 8
Entry, Sunk Costs and Market Structure 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 200
Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Games with Recommended Play 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 202
Evolutionary Bargaining with Cooperative Investments 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 144
FIRM REPUTATION AND SELF-ENFORCING LABOUR CONTRACTS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 200
Firm Reputation and Self-Enforcing Labour Contracts 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 87
First Do No Harm?: Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes 0 0 1 149 0 2 6 691
Gift Giving and the Evolution of Cooperation 1 3 4 524 1 11 78 2,191
Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance 0 0 1 36 0 1 2 130
Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance 0 0 0 74 1 1 3 176
Holdup and the Evolution of Bargaining Conventions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 233
INVESTMENTS, HOLD UP AND THE REFORM OF MARKET CONTRACTS 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 189
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 393
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On 0 0 0 30 0 0 1 25
Implicit contracts, incentive compatibility, and involuntary unemployment: thirty years on 0 0 0 19 0 5 10 32
Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of Dual Economies 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 229
Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of Dual Economies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 77
Information, Sunk Costs and Entry Equilibria 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59
Institutions and Contract Enforcement 0 0 0 34 1 2 3 180
Institutions and Contract Enforcement 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 230
Institutions and Contract Enforcement 0 0 0 78 0 0 2 225
Institutions and Contract Enforcement 0 0 0 71 0 0 1 132
Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts 0 0 0 45 0 1 2 105
Investments, Hold Up and the Reform of Market Contracts 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 116
Involuntary Unemployment in Dynamic Contract Equilibria 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 80
Is Education Consumption or Investment? Implications for the Effect of School Competition 1 1 4 38 1 3 12 143
Job Characteristics and the Form of Compensation 0 0 2 480 0 0 5 2,475
Job Characteristics, Wages and the Employment Contract 0 0 1 192 0 0 2 1,279
L'effet d'apprentissage et l'assurance-chomage 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 777
LABOUR TURNOVER AND THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT: EFFICIENCY WAGE V.S FRICTIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 786
LABOUR TURNOVER AND THE NATURAL RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT: EFFICIENCY WAGE VS FRICTIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1,429
Labour Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: An Incomplete Contracts Approach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39
Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws 0 0 0 93 0 0 1 822
Les contracts auto-executoires et la theorie des institutions du marche du travail 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 111
Les contracts auto-executoires et la theorie des institutions du marche du travail 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 309
MULTISKILLING, TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE JAPANESE FIRM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 668
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts 0 1 3 41 0 2 8 127
Motivation and Markets 0 0 1 484 0 2 6 1,978
Multiskilling, Technical Change and the Japanese Firm 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 222
OPTIMAL LABOR CONTRACTS WITH NON-CONTRACTIBLE HUMAN CAPITAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 270
On Adjustment Costs and the Stability of Equilibria 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 39
On adjustment costs and the stability of equilibria 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5
On the Effects of Sunk Costs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 93
On the Efficiency of Standard Contracts the Case of Construction 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 83
On the non-existence of equilibria in differentiated product models 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 13
Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation 0 0 0 219 0 0 0 520
Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation: The Effects of Timing, Malfeasance and Guile 0 0 0 44 0 0 2 65
PERFORMANCE PAY AND WAGE INEQUALITY 0 0 0 384 0 2 9 1,211
Past and Future Developments in the Economics of Relational Contracts 0 1 1 2 0 1 4 8
Performance Pay and Wage Inequality 0 0 0 130 0 0 6 412
Performance Pay and Wage Inequality 0 0 0 224 0 0 4 664
Physician Practice Style and Patient Health Outcomes: The Case of Heart Attacks 0 0 1 33 0 0 5 126
Positive Incentives: The Income Effect and The Optimal Regulation of Crime 1 2 12 12 1 2 9 9
Price Discrimination and Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2,030
Price Discrimination and Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition 1 1 1 9 1 3 25 194
Price Discrimination and Product Line Rivalry 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 172
Price discrimination and equilibrium in monopolistic competition 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 17
Price discrimination and equilibrium in monopolistic competition 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 122
RENEGOTIATION-PROOF EQUILIBRIA IN CONTINUOUS TIME GAMES 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 215
Reducing Partisanship in Judicial Elections Can Improve Judge Quality: Evidence from U.S. State Supreme Courts 0 0 0 48 1 3 4 63
Regulation or Markets? The Case of Employment Contract 0 0 0 159 0 0 1 635
Renegotiation Proof Equilibria in Continuous Time Games 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 264
Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 289
Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts 0 0 1 126 0 1 2 388
Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts 0 0 0 188 0 0 1 496
SPACIAL COMPETITION AND THE CORE 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 371
SPATIAL COMPETITION AND THE CORE 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 290
Spatial Competition and the Core 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 155
Spatial Competition and the Core 0 0 0 5 0 1 3 50
Spatial competition and the core 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 25
Stable leadership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 84
Subjective Evaluations and Stratification in Graduate Education 0 0 0 12 0 0 3 17
Supply Side Hysteresis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System 0 0 0 202 0 0 3 1,969
Supply Side Hysterisis: The Case of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance System 0 0 0 111 0 0 1 1,628
THE RATCHET EFFECT AND THE MARKET FOR SECOND-HAND WORKERS 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 364
Territorial Bargaining 0 0 0 72 0 0 1 547
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes 0 0 1 72 0 0 1 134
The Ratchet Effect and the Market for Second-Hand Workers 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 123
The Ratchet Effect, the Market for Senior Workers, and Intertemporal Commitment 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 124
The Theory of Contracts and Labor Practices in Japan and the United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 371
The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining 1 10 10 10 0 2 2 2
The Value of Worker Rights in Collective Bargaining 0 4 4 4 0 2 2 2
Torts, Expertise, and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations 0 0 1 41 0 0 1 151
Transactions Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy 0 0 0 43 0 0 0 106
Understanding Doctor Decision Making: The Case of Depression 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 17
Understanding Doctor Decision Making: The Case of Depression 0 0 0 36 1 3 5 122
Viewpoint: The Human Capital Approach to Inference 0 0 0 13 0 0 0 52
WAGE PREMIUMS AND PROFIT MAXIMISATION IN EFFICIENCY WAGE MODELS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,018
WAGE PREMIUMS AND PROFIT MAXIMIZATION IN EFFICIENCY WAGE MODELS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 629
WAGE PREMIUMS AND THE PROFIT MAXIMIZATION IN EFFICIENCY WAGE MODELS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 293
Wage Premiums and the Profit Maximization in Efficiency Wage Models 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 85
Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles 0 0 0 50 0 0 3 64
Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles 0 0 1 45 0 1 3 75
Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation: On Building an Effective Conflict Culture 0 0 0 26 0 1 10 49
Total Working Papers 5 32 106 6,842 19 100 423 46,027


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A theory of conscious parallelism 0 0 0 136 1 3 3 388
Accidental death and the rule of joint and several liability 0 0 0 13 0 1 6 224
Administrative corruption and taxation 0 1 4 50 0 2 5 348
Aspiration uncertainty: its impact on decision performance and process 0 0 0 38 0 0 1 158
Behavior and the organization of the firm 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 140
Book Review: Labor Economics: Dual Labor Markets: A Macroeconomic Perspective 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences? 0 0 0 31 1 1 1 198
Can Wrongful Discharge Law Enhance Employment? 0 0 0 75 0 0 1 259
Caring About Sunk Costs: A Behavioral Solution to Holdup Problems with Small Stakes 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 529
Comment on "Public and Private Bureaucracies: A Tranbsaction Cost Economics Perspective," by Oliver Williamson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 437
Competition, Tacit Collusion and Free Entry 0 0 0 102 0 0 6 579
Complexity and Contract 0 0 1 19 0 0 1 134
Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Heuristic Search 0 0 0 173 0 0 0 570
Continuous Time Repeated Games 0 0 4 279 0 2 9 696
Contract Bargaining with Symmetric Information 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 274
Contract Form, Wage Flexibility, and Employment 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 188
Contracting in the shadow of the law 0 1 1 36 0 2 4 200
Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts 0 0 3 11 0 1 5 69
Decision, Contract, and Emotion: Some Economics for a Complex and Confusing World 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 240
Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making, and Performance among Physicians 0 0 0 49 1 2 9 337
Efficiency and Renegotiation in Repeated Games 0 0 0 117 0 0 0 251
Entry, Sunk Costs and Renegotiation in Duopoly 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 17
Entry, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure 0 0 1 32 0 0 1 370
Entry, Sunk Costs, and Market Structure: Reply 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 108
Equilibrium Selection in Experimental Games with Recommended Play 0 1 1 82 0 1 1 201
Firm reputation and self-enforcing labor contracts 0 0 1 66 0 0 2 149
First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes 0 0 2 124 4 9 14 672
Gift Giving and the Evolution of Cooperation 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 923
Hold-up and the evolution of investment and bargaining norms 0 0 0 37 0 1 2 115
Human capital: Linking behavior to rational choice via dual process theory 0 1 3 33 0 1 7 183
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment 0 0 4 325 1 2 15 925
Implicit Contracts, Incentive Compatibility, and Involuntary Unemployment: Thirty Years On 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9
Information, incentives, and bargaining in the Japanese economy: Masahiko Aoki, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988) pp. x + 320, $39.50 0 0 1 92 1 1 2 336
Institutions and Contract Enforcement 0 0 0 42 1 1 2 319
Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts 0 0 1 4 0 1 5 143
Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts 0 1 4 379 1 4 11 1,049
Involuntary unemployment in dynamic contract equilibria * 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 53
Is Education Consumption or Investment? Implications for School Competition 0 0 2 8 0 0 8 32
Job characteristics, wages, and the employment contract 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 338
Labor Turnover and the Natural Rate of Unemployment: Efficiency Wage versus Frictional Unemployment 0 0 1 158 0 0 4 1,475
Les contrats auto-exécutoires et la théorie des institutions du marché du travail 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 124
Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved the Performance of US State Supreme Courts 0 0 0 5 1 1 4 17
Motivation and Markets 0 1 4 298 0 1 6 983
Multiskilling, Technical Change and the Japanese Firm 2 2 2 232 3 3 9 1,001
On Adjustment Costs and the Stability of Equilibria 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 53
On Economics: A Review of Why Nations Fail by D. Acemoglu and J. Robinson and Pillars of Prosperity by T. Besley and T. Persson 0 0 6 229 3 4 26 619
On the non-existence of equilibria in differentiated product models 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 60
Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation 0 0 0 465 0 1 4 1,342
Optimal labor contracts with non-contractible human capital 0 0 0 42 1 1 3 107
Performance Pay and Wage Inequality 0 2 12 320 3 10 63 1,352
Price discrimination and equilibrium in monopolistic competition 0 0 1 180 0 0 3 468
Provider practice style and patient health outcomes: The case of heart attacks 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 45
Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts 0 0 0 8 0 1 22 66
Regulation or Markets? The Case of Employment Contracts 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13
Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment 0 1 2 169 0 1 2 627
Reputation and School Competition 1 2 2 113 4 6 7 366
Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement 0 2 5 54 0 3 8 504
Spatial Competition and the Core 0 2 2 70 0 2 2 383
Specific investment and wage profiles in labour markets 0 0 1 69 0 0 2 173
Spillovers and Training Effects on Mental Health Prescribing for Children 0 0 1 1 0 1 8 10
Supply side hysteresis: the case of the Canadian unemployment insurance system 0 0 0 79 0 1 6 400
THREE SOLITUDES IN CONTRACT: LAW, DATA, AND THEORY 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 199
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes 0 0 0 26 1 3 11 202
The Ratchet Effect and the Market for Secondhand Workers 0 1 1 83 0 1 3 374
The Role of Exit Costs in the Theory of Cooperative Teams: A Theoretical Perspective 0 0 0 55 0 0 0 184
Torts, Expertise, and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 431
Transaction Costs and the Employment Contract in the US Economy 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 59
Turnover Costs, Efficiency Wages and Cycles 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 12
Understanding Doctor Decision Making: The Case of Depression Treatment 0 1 2 34 0 2 7 135
Viewpoint: The human capital approach to inference 0 0 0 6 0 3 4 61
Viewpoint: The human capital approach to inference 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 10
Wage premiums and profit maximization in efficiency wage models 0 0 0 119 0 0 0 352
Welfare Economics with Intransitive Revealed Preferences: A Theory of the Endowment Effect 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 212
Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles 0 0 0 25 1 2 5 93
Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet Effect 0 0 1 186 1 2 5 1,049
Total Journal Articles 4 20 77 5,697 32 92 360 25,722


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Contracts between Legal Persons 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 59
Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance 0 0 2 81 0 1 8 407
Total Chapters 0 0 2 81 0 2 10 466


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