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"Yes Men," Integrity, and the Optimal Design of Incentive Contracts 0 0 0 13 3 5 12 138
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 229 2 2 9 632
Allocating control in agency problems with limited liability and sequential hidden actions 0 0 0 134 3 4 14 461
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 43 2 9 15 92
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 4 6 7 20 44
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 0 142 2 2 19 508
Ausgewählte Anwendungen der Theorie unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 23 1 1 5 103
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 24 0 6 13 80
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 41 3 8 12 174
Book Review of “Bargaining Theory with Applications” (Muthoo, 1999) 0 0 0 92 3 13 17 297
Book Review of “Contract Theory” (Bolton and Dewatripont, 2005) 0 0 0 242 2 4 12 937
Book Review of “Inflation and the Enforcement of Contracts” (Renner, 1999) 0 0 0 9 3 3 7 81
Book Review of “On Voting: a public choice approach” (Tullock, 1998) 0 0 0 21 0 0 2 106
Book Review of “Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law” (Anderson and McChesney, 2003) 0 0 0 27 2 2 8 138
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 0 122 2 10 18 493
Can Coasean bargaining justify Pigouvian taxation? 0 0 0 47 1 3 11 251
Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence 0 0 1 202 3 14 24 549
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 13 2 4 15 85
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 32 1 3 11 232
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 190 1 22 45 579
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 1 1 1 143 4 12 20 487
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 8 0 1 10 56
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 0 0 6 3 4 6 23
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 1 3 35 6 8 18 40
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 0 5 4 7 11 46
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 1 2 15 4 7 18 46
Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Externalities: An Experimental Study 0 0 1 24 6 6 11 73
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 1 76 3 4 11 178
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 136 5 7 15 225
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 44 1 4 19 173
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 73 6 16 24 257
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 33 4 7 18 164
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 80 4 4 15 388
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 4 3 5 15 64
Der Effekt von Nachverhandlungen auf Investitionen mit Eigen- und Fremdwirkung 0 0 0 12 5 5 13 91
Der Lock in Effekt und das Hold up Problem 0 0 2 127 2 4 19 506
Die Bedeutung von privater Information für Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Käufern und Verkäufern 0 0 0 14 3 3 11 128
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 29 3 3 8 134
Do Sellers Offer Menus of Contracts to Separate Buyer Types? An Experimental Test of Adverse Selection Theory 0 0 0 66 2 5 11 160
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 71 2 2 10 281
Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 179 0 3 9 772
Garbled Elections 0 0 0 10 0 1 3 88
Garbled Elections 0 0 1 29 1 2 8 155
Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 99 3 4 8 425
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 22 1 3 14 89
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 0 0 1 37 3 9 18 111
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Contract Theory 0 0 0 84 2 4 13 205
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Moral Hazard Theory 0 0 0 29 3 3 14 42
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 33 1 3 24 109
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 27 3 4 18 69
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 1 3 25 2 3 25 53
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 0 0 12 2 6 16 60
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 2 38 2 2 16 55
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 13
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 4 8 20 59
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 0 7 14 49
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 11 4 7 17 59
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 40 1 2 7 87
Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 284 1 1 7 807
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 24 3 4 17 95
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 34 1 2 13 139
Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework 0 0 0 38 4 4 13 208
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 0 543 5 5 21 1,248
Investments as Signals of Outside Options 0 0 0 76 4 6 15 278
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 10 1 2 10 64
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 36 2 4 8 125
Job Protection Laws and Agency Problems Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 92 2 6 10 461
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 0 1 83 3 9 35 219
Joint Ownership and Incomplete Contracts: The Case of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 0 102 0 1 5 445
Joint Ownership and the Hold-up Problem Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 101 2 4 13 345
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 0 0 27 1 9 16 161
Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 44 2 3 13 154
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 76 2 4 9 229
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 1 30 0 5 9 43
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 42 1 3 15 98
On Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 17 2 2 7 65
On Second Price Auctions and Imperfect Competition 0 0 0 107 2 3 10 364
On contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 39 2 3 7 176
On simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 62 1 2 10 236
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 1 151 4 4 11 465
On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation 0 0 0 56 0 0 2 188
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 1 8 2 7 18 31
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 0 5 1 7 12 30
Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights in Dynamic R&D Alliances 0 0 0 158 1 1 5 479
Optimal Contracting in Agency with Verifiable Ex Post Information 0 0 0 117 0 0 11 452
Optimal Contracting with Verifiable Ex Post Signals 0 0 0 83 0 2 11 456
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 45
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 2 1 3 14 20
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 6 3 5 12 36
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 19 2 3 11 48
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 10 0 2 19 43
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 26 4 7 25 78
Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information 0 0 0 99 2 4 7 340
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 9 1 4 16 59
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 2 4 14 24 46
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 0 197 4 7 20 445
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 0 52 1 7 11 355
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 11 2 3 10 40
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 31 1 4 9 70
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 1 29 1 5 17 51
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 0 11 0 5 13 71
Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks 0 0 0 183 3 5 12 478
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 31 0 7 15 88
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 10 2 6 18 70
Public-Private Partnerships, Asymmetric Information, and Incomplete Contracts 0 1 17 17 1 5 24 24
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 0 61 2 4 15 291
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 118 0 4 20 381
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 172 5 7 28 338
Repeated Moral Hazard, Limited Liability, and Renegotiation 0 1 1 141 0 8 11 439
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 34 2 4 20 162
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 110 1 1 17 276
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: The case of risk-neutrality 0 0 1 126 1 4 16 333
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 129 2 2 16 470
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 134 5 7 19 448
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 108 2 14 28 440
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 1 57 3 3 14 243
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 77 0 2 10 308
Should a principal hire one agent or two agents to perform two sequential tasks? 0 0 1 53 2 5 17 174
Signaling an Outside Option 0 0 0 28 5 7 21 153
Sollten Haftungsregeln durch Strafen ergänzt werden? 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 72
Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 64 2 4 10 236
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 0 99 3 6 9 172
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 59 5 7 12 209
The Costs and Benefits of Additional Information in Agency Models with Endogenous Information Structures 1 1 1 80 2 2 8 187
The Hold-Up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 1 742 3 8 19 1,609
The Management of Innovation: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 67 3 8 22 139
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 18
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 16 5 6 14 60
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 0 1 8 2 9 45 69
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 0 1 14 3 4 11 35
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 20 1 6 10 30
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 6 4 8 18 47
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 43 4 7 21 113
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 39 4 6 14 124
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 92 1 5 19 208
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 4 2 7 18 44
Unmöglichkeitstheoreme bei asymmetrischer Information 0 0 1 424 1 3 8 648
Unvollständige Verträge und die Grenzen der Firma 0 0 0 36 1 1 5 147
Vertikale Unternehmenskooperationen 0 0 0 545 2 2 10 1,043
Vertragstheorie: Zum Nobelpreis 2016 für Oliver Hart und Bengt Holmström 0 0 1 258 1 3 13 356
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 0 0 0 7 7 13 15
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 1 1 2 6 1 4 14 27
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 0 0 1 328 0 1 11 1,224
Total Working Papers 3 8 57 10,853 313 694 2,025 33,756
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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 1 64 2 3 12 306
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 2 4 13 22 1,132
Anderson, T. L., and McChesney, F. S. (Eds.): Property Rights – Cooperation, Conflict, and Law 0 0 0 6 2 3 10 44
Asymmetric information and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 14 4 9 23 92
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 1 18 3 7 15 158
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 1 38 2 3 19 204
Book Review 0 0 0 4 1 1 3 57
Book reviews 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 60
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 1 30 4 6 14 200
Can contracts solve the hold-up problem? Experimental evidence 0 1 5 163 5 8 33 442
Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases 1 2 4 199 5 13 41 909
Completely relationship-specific investments, transaction costs, and the property rights theory 1 8 12 91 3 12 35 132
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 1 1 6 504 2 5 26 974
Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information 0 1 1 19 1 3 17 94
Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study 0 2 4 27 2 4 12 46
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 25 4 5 11 121
Cooling Off in Negotiations: Does it Work? 0 0 0 23 5 9 18 133
Die Bedeutung von privater Information f³r Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Kõufern und Verkõufern 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 174
Do sellers offer menus of contracts to separate buyer types? An experimental test of adverse selection theory 0 1 3 74 3 5 13 153
ENDOGENOUS PUNISHMENTS IN AGENCY WITH VERIFIABLE EX POST INFORMATION * 0 0 0 53 0 2 4 252
Erratum to 'On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation': [International Review of Law and Economics (2000), 20, 371-382] 0 1 1 23 0 1 8 91
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 677
Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard 0 0 0 77 2 2 6 215
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 1 2 6 101 4 7 25 278
Hidden action and outcome contractibility: An experimental test of moral hazard theory 0 1 4 221 1 2 16 320
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 1 2 48 3 8 20 118
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts 0 1 2 72 0 8 18 105
Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction? 0 6 11 114 1 8 17 127
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 1 1 1 17 2 4 10 112
Incomplete contracts, limited liability, and the optimality of joint ownership 0 0 1 12 1 2 18 63
Incomplete contracts, shared ownership, and investment incentives 0 1 2 17 4 7 16 86
Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information 0 1 2 110 3 8 15 261
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 3 559 4 14 38 1,744
Information gathering and the hold-up problem in a complete contracting framework 0 0 0 61 0 2 6 161
Investments as signals of outside options 0 0 0 28 1 6 12 141
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 9 2 2 8 74
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 0 2 68 2 4 17 207
Job protection laws and agency problems under asymmetric information 1 2 3 79 1 2 9 336
Joint Ownership And Incomplete Contracts: The Case Of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 0 26 2 3 8 145
Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 68 1 4 15 200
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 1 2 77 3 8 19 238
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 0 3 9 21 377
Moral hazard and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 12 1 2 13 56
On Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 127 1 2 11 306
On second-price auctions and imperfect competition 0 0 0 76 1 2 9 229
On synergies and vertical integration 0 0 0 122 2 3 15 343
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 0 335 0 2 7 637
On the joint use of liability and safety regulation 0 1 2 101 1 5 14 322
On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries 0 3 4 27 3 7 13 56
Optimal allocation of ownership rights in dynamic R&D alliances 0 0 1 116 1 3 13 305
Optimal ownership of public goods in the presence of transaction costs 0 0 0 10 1 1 10 57
Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered 1 1 1 9 2 2 9 59
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information 1 2 4 37 5 6 23 107
Optimal selling strategies when buyers may have hard information 0 0 1 102 0 1 8 287
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 7 1 1 6 55
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 1 8 9 13 24 526
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 0 22 1 2 11 151
Pollution claim settlements reconsidered: Hidden information and bounded payments 0 0 1 33 6 7 14 83
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 19 1 1 4 78
Public goods, property rights, and investment incentives: An experimental investigation 2 2 3 12 4 4 18 47
Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered 0 0 0 10 0 3 12 56
Public versus private ownership: Quantity contracts and the allocation of investment tasks 0 1 4 310 1 8 27 677
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 3 66 2 4 18 289
Public–private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 2 64 3 9 29 245
Public–private partnerships, asymmetric information, and incomplete contracts 0 10 18 18 2 19 33 33
REPEATED MORAL HAZARD AND CONTRACTS WITH MEMORY: THE CASE OF RISK‐NEUTRALITY 0 0 0 7 6 10 21 140
Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 49 2 2 8 140
Randomization in coalition contracts 0 1 1 4 2 4 11 77
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 42 3 13 29 157
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 216 4 7 19 658
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 91 5 10 21 395
Simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 223 1 2 9 737
Task scheduling and moral hazard 0 0 1 38 1 1 9 138
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 1 26 1 2 47 212
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 1 1 47 1 9 12 140
The Hold-up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 852
The costs and benefits of additional information in agency models with endogenous information structures 1 1 4 65 3 4 12 160
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 17 6 8 13 83
The management of innovation: Experimental evidence 1 2 3 12 4 10 15 76
The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information 0 0 0 8 3 5 11 61
The proper scope of government reconsidered: Asymmetric information and incentive contracts 1 2 9 105 3 10 29 139
The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract 0 1 1 14 1 3 17 50
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 31 1 4 18 147
When should the government own the physical assets needed to provide public goods? 1 9 16 42 2 10 25 63
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 1 1 3 395 5 6 19 1,281
Total Journal Articles 15 72 167 6,223 202 458 1,367 22,469


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