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"Yes Men," Integrity, and the Optimal Design of Incentive Contracts 0 0 0 13 0 1 4 127
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 229 1 1 1 624
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 4 0 0 1 25
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 43 0 1 1 78
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 0 142 2 2 4 491
Ausgewählte Anwendungen der Theorie unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 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 2 280
Book Review of “Contract Theory” (Bolton and Dewatripont, 2005) 0 0 0 242 0 1 6 928
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 1 1 2 131
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 0 122 0 0 0 475
Can Coasean bargaining justify Pigouvian taxation? 0 0 0 47 3 3 4 243
Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence 0 1 1 202 2 3 5 528
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 1 8 1 1 3 47
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 142 1 1 4 469
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 190 0 1 5 537
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 3 13 2 2 5 72
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 223
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 1 2 3 34 1 2 4 24
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 18
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 36
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 1 1 14 0 2 4 31
Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Externalities: An Experimental Study 0 0 2 24 1 2 6 66
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 136 2 2 4 212
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 167
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 44 2 2 3 157
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 33 0 2 2 148
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 80 2 3 5 376
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 73 0 0 3 234
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 50
Der Effekt von Nachverhandlungen auf Investitionen mit Eigen- und Fremdwirkung 0 0 0 12 2 3 4 81
Der Lock in Effekt und das Hold up Problem 0 1 2 127 3 7 9 495
Die Bedeutung von privater Information für Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Käufern und Verkäufern 0 0 0 14 0 1 2 118
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 29 1 1 2 127
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 0 4 273
Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 179 0 0 0 763
Garbled Elections 0 1 1 29 1 2 2 149
Garbled Elections 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 86
Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 99 2 2 3 419
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 77
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 1 1 1 37 2 2 2 95
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Contract Theory 0 0 0 84 2 2 4 195
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Moral Hazard Theory 0 0 0 29 1 2 3 31
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 0 27 0 1 5 53
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 0 0 12 1 1 4 47
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 2 2 2 24 2 2 4 31
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 6
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 1 1 1 37 2 2 3 42
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 1 2 4 42
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 36
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 11 0 1 2 43
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 40 1 1 3 82
Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 284 0 1 2 802
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 34 0 0 4 129
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 24 0 1 4 82
Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework 0 0 0 38 0 0 1 196
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 0 543 2 3 8 1,231
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 10 0 0 1 54
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 117
Job Protection Laws and Agency Problems Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 91 0 1 4 452
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 1 1 1 83 4 5 7 191
Joint Ownership and Incomplete Contracts: The Case of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 1 102 1 1 4 441
Joint Ownership and the Hold-up Problem Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 101 0 2 3 335
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 0 0 27 0 0 4 145
Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 44 2 2 3 143
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 76 0 0 2 221
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 1 2 30 1 2 6 36
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 42 0 0 2 84
On Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 17 1 1 2 59
On Second Price Auctions and Imperfect Competition 0 0 0 107 1 2 3 357
On contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 39 0 0 0 169
On simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 62 1 2 5 228
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 1 151 0 0 2 455
On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation 0 0 0 56 0 1 2 187
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 1 1 1 8 2 2 3 15
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 0 5 2 2 3 20
Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights in Dynamic R&D Alliances 0 0 0 158 0 0 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 3 3 4 449
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 7
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 19 1 1 3 39
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 24
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 1 1 1 10 1 1 6 27
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 1 1 26 1 4 5 57
Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information 0 0 0 99 0 1 1 334
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 2 0 1 4 23
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 1 2 3 427
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 0 52 1 1 1 345
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 31 1 1 3 62
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 11 0 1 1 59
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 1 1 29 0 2 4 36
Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks 0 0 0 183 1 1 6 468
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 10 1 1 3 55
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 31 0 1 1 74
Public-Private Partnerships, Asymmetric Information, and Incomplete Contracts 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 1 61 2 4 8 281
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 118 1 1 2 362
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 172 0 1 5 313
Repeated Moral Hazard, Limited Liability, and Renegotiation 0 0 0 140 0 0 4 430
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 34 4 8 10 150
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 110 3 4 5 263
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: The case of risk-neutrality 0 0 1 126 2 2 9 323
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 129 1 2 5 458
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 134 0 1 3 431
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 108 1 1 2 414
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? 1 1 1 57 1 1 1 230
Should a principal hire one agent or two agents to perform two sequential tasks? 0 0 0 52 2 3 5 160
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 0 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 1 2 2 199
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 1 741 1 1 11 1,593
The Management of Innovation: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 67 0 0 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 2 3 3 49
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 1 1 2 14 2 2 3 26
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 0 2 8 0 1 5 26
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 30
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 20 1 1 3 21
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 39 1 1 1 111
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 43 2 4 5 96
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 92 0 0 1 190
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 27
Unmöglichkeitstheoreme bei asymmetrischer Information 0 0 0 423 0 0 3 641
Unvollständige Verträge und die Grenzen der Firma 0 0 1 36 0 0 2 142
Vertikale Unternehmenskooperationen 0 0 0 545 0 0 1 1,034
Vertragstheorie: Zum Nobelpreis 2016 für Oliver Hart und Bengt Holmström 0 0 1 258 1 2 7 348
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 5
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 1 1 1 5 6 6 9 19
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 1 1 1 328 3 3 5 1,216
Total Working Papers 12 20 41 10,823 112 179 446 31,986
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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 0 0 4 297
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 1,112
Anderson, T. L., and McChesney, F. S. (Eds.): Property Rights – Cooperation, Conflict, and Law 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 34
Asymmetric information and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 14 1 1 3 72
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 1 3 38 4 8 14 194
Book Review 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 54
Book reviews 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 56
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 1 1 1 30 1 1 4 188
Can contracts solve the hold-up problem? Experimental evidence 2 2 4 161 3 4 14 417
Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases 0 0 3 195 1 6 29 879
Completely relationship-specific investments, transaction costs, and the property rights theory 3 3 11 82 3 5 21 104
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 2 3 11 502 2 5 44 961
Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information 0 0 1 18 0 1 4 78
Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study 0 0 5 23 2 2 12 37
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 25 0 0 5 113
Cooling Off in Negotiations: Does it Work? 0 0 0 23 0 1 3 116
Die Bedeutung von privater Information f³r Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Kõufern und Verkõufern 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 170
Do sellers offer menus of contracts to separate buyer types? An experimental test of adverse selection theory 1 1 3 73 1 1 5 144
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 2 3 3 86
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 669
Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard 0 0 0 77 1 1 2 211
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 2 3 4 98 6 7 9 260
Hidden action and outcome contractibility: An experimental test of moral hazard theory 2 2 3 219 2 3 6 308
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 1 1 2 47 1 2 6 101
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts 1 1 2 71 1 2 6 90
Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction? 3 3 11 106 3 3 14 113
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 104
Incomplete contracts, limited liability, and the optimality of joint ownership 0 0 1 12 1 1 3 48
Incomplete contracts, shared ownership, and investment incentives 1 1 1 16 3 4 6 76
Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information 0 1 1 109 0 1 1 247
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach 1 2 5 558 2 6 18 1,713
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 0 0 1 130
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 68
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 0 0 66 1 2 6 194
Job protection laws and agency problems under asymmetric information 0 0 0 76 1 2 6 330
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 0 1 186
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 1 1 1 76 1 2 5 223
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 358
Moral hazard and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 12 0 1 4 46
On Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 1 2 127 1 2 6 297
On second-price auctions and imperfect competition 0 0 0 76 1 1 2 221
On synergies and vertical integration 0 0 0 122 2 2 3 331
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 0 335 1 1 8 633
On the joint use of liability and safety regulation 0 0 1 99 1 1 5 310
On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries 1 1 4 24 2 2 7 45
Optimal allocation of ownership rights in dynamic R&D alliances 0 0 1 115 1 1 4 294
Optimal ownership of public goods in the presence of transaction costs 0 0 1 10 1 1 4 50
Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 54
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information 1 1 3 35 1 5 7 90
Optimal selling strategies when buyers may have hard information 1 1 3 102 1 1 4 280
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 50
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 1 7 1 3 6 505
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 3 22 1 1 6 143
Pollution claim settlements reconsidered: Hidden information and bounded payments 0 0 1 33 1 1 2 71
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 74
Public goods, property rights, and investment incentives: An experimental investigation 1 1 1 10 2 2 6 34
Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 46
Public versus private ownership: Quantity contracts and the allocation of investment tasks 1 1 4 308 2 6 25 664
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 2 2 2 65 4 5 10 276
Public–private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 1 2 64 1 7 14 225
Public–private partnerships, asymmetric information, and incomplete contracts 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
REPEATED MORAL HAZARD AND CONTRACTS WITH MEMORY: THE CASE OF RISK‐NEUTRALITY 0 0 0 7 0 0 3 119
Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 49 1 1 2 134
Randomization in coalition contracts 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 69
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 42 1 1 3 130
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 216 0 1 6 641
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 91 2 4 7 379
Simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 223 0 1 2 729
Task scheduling and moral hazard 0 0 2 38 0 0 3 130
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 0 25 1 1 7 169
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 46 0 1 2 129
The Hold-up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 845
The costs and benefits of additional information in agency models with endogenous information structures 1 1 1 62 2 2 4 151
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 17 1 1 1 71
The management of innovation: Experimental evidence 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 63
The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 52
The proper scope of government reconsidered: Asymmetric information and incentive contracts 2 2 16 100 3 4 24 118
The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract 0 0 1 13 1 1 4 34
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 31 3 3 8 136
When should the government own the physical assets needed to provide public goods? 4 4 14 31 5 5 22 46
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 1 1 2 393 3 4 15 1,267
Total Journal Articles 37 44 141 6,112 96 158 543 21,377


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