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"Yes Men," Integrity, and the Optimal Design of Incentive Contracts 0 0 0 13 1 4 7 131
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 229 2 3 3 626
Allocating control in agency problems with limited liability and sequential hidden actions 0 0 0 134 1 5 5 452
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 26
Asymmetric Information and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 43 0 0 1 78
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 0 142 1 6 8 495
Ausgewählte Anwendungen der Theorie unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 23 1 1 2 99
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 24 0 2 4 69
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 41 2 2 3 164
Book Review of “Bargaining Theory with Applications” (Muthoo, 1999) 0 0 0 92 2 4 6 284
Book Review of “Contract Theory” (Bolton and Dewatripont, 2005) 0 0 0 242 2 3 9 931
Book Review of “Inflation and the Enforcement of Contracts” (Renner, 1999) 0 0 0 9 2 2 2 76
Book Review of “On Voting: a public choice approach” (Tullock, 1998) 0 0 0 21 0 1 2 105
Book Review of “Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law” (Anderson and McChesney, 2003) 0 0 0 27 3 4 5 134
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 0 0 122 1 2 2 477
Can Coasean bargaining justify Pigouvian taxation? 0 0 0 47 1 6 7 246
Can Contracts Solve the Hold-Up Problem? Experimental Evidence 0 0 1 202 2 4 7 530
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 2 13 2 4 6 74
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 190 2 3 7 540
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 32 1 4 7 227
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 1 8 3 5 6 51
Cognitive Abilities and Behavioral Biases 0 0 0 142 1 3 5 471
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 1 3 34 3 4 7 27
Completely Relationship-Specific Investments, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Theory 0 0 0 6 0 1 3 19
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 0 5 2 2 4 38
Contracting under Adverse Selection: Certifiable vs. Uncertifiable Information 0 0 1 14 0 1 5 32
Contracting under Asymmetric Information and Externalities: An Experimental Study 0 0 2 24 0 1 6 66
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 0 0 136 1 4 6 214
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 1 1 1 76 2 5 5 172
Contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 44 2 8 9 163
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 73 1 1 4 235
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 33 1 2 4 150
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 80 2 7 8 381
Cooling-Off in Negotiations - Does It Work? 0 0 0 4 0 4 5 53
Der Effekt von Nachverhandlungen auf Investitionen mit Eigen- und Fremdwirkung 0 0 0 12 0 4 6 83
Der Lock in Effekt und das Hold up Problem 0 0 2 127 3 9 15 501
Die Bedeutung von privater Information für Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Käufern und Verkäufern 0 0 0 14 3 3 5 121
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge 0 0 0 29 1 3 4 129
Do Sellers Offer Menus of Contracts to Separate Buyer Types? An Experimental Test of Adverse Selection Theory 0 0 1 66 1 3 4 152
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 71 4 4 8 277
Exclusive versus Non-exclusive Licensing Strategies and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 179 1 1 1 764
Garbled Elections 0 0 1 29 1 4 5 152
Garbled Elections 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 86
Gathering Information before Signing a Contract: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 99 0 2 3 419
Government versus Private Ownership of Public Goods: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 22 2 4 7 81
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 0 1 1 37 2 5 5 98
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Contract Theory 0 0 0 84 1 4 6 197
Hidden Action and Outcome Contractibility: An Experimental Test of Moral Hazard Theory 0 0 0 29 3 6 8 36
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 33 4 9 11 94
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 0 0 27 2 2 6 55
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 0 0 12 1 3 5 49
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus At-Will Contracts 0 2 2 24 2 4 6 33
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 1 2 2 38 3 9 10 49
Incentivizing Research with (Un)conditional Teaching Duties: Punishment or Rent Extraction? 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 9
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 1 2 2 37
Incomplete Contracts, Limited Liability, and the Optimality of Joint Ownership 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 42
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 40 0 1 3 82
Incomplete Contracts, Shared Ownership, and Investment Incentives 0 0 0 11 1 1 3 44
Incomplete Contracts, the Hold-Up Problem and Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 284 2 3 5 805
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 24 2 4 8 86
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 34 0 0 4 129
Information Gathering and the Hold-Up Problem in a Complete Contracting Framework 0 0 0 38 1 2 3 198
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs and the Property Rights Approach 0 0 0 543 3 5 10 1,234
Investments as Signals of Outside Options 0 0 0 76 1 5 6 268
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 10 2 4 5 58
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 36 1 1 1 118
Job Protection Laws and Agency Problems Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 91 1 1 5 453
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 0 1 1 83 0 6 9 193
Joint Ownership and Incomplete Contracts: The Case of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 1 102 1 2 4 442
Joint Ownership and the Hold-up Problem Under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 101 0 3 6 338
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 0 0 27 2 2 6 147
Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 0 44 1 4 5 145
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 76 2 2 4 223
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 0 42 0 0 2 84
Moral Hazard and the Property Rights Approach to the Theory of the Firm 0 0 1 30 0 1 4 36
On Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 17 1 2 3 60
On Second Price Auctions and Imperfect Competition 0 0 0 107 1 2 4 358
On contractual solutions to hold-up problems with quality uncertainty and unobservable investments 0 0 0 39 2 2 2 171
On simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 62 0 4 8 231
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 1 151 1 1 3 456
On the Joint Use of Liability and Safety Regulation 0 0 0 56 0 0 2 187
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 0 0 5 0 2 3 20
On the Optimality of Outsourcing when Vertical Integration can Mitigate Information Asymmetries 0 1 1 8 1 7 8 20
Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights in Dynamic R&D Alliances 0 0 0 158 1 2 4 477
Optimal Contracting in Agency with Verifiable Ex Post Information 0 0 0 117 8 10 11 451
Optimal Contracting with Verifiable Ex Post Signals 0 0 0 83 1 5 6 451
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 2 0 8 10 15
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods Reconsidered 0 0 0 5 2 2 3 40
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 19 1 4 5 42
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods in the Presence of Transaction Costs 0 0 0 6 1 2 2 26
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 0 1 26 3 4 7 60
Optimal Ownership of Public Goods under Asymmetric Information 0 1 1 10 0 2 7 28
Optimal Selling Strategies When Buyers May Have Hard Information 0 0 0 99 0 1 2 335
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 2 2 2 5 25
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 9 2 2 4 45
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 0 0 197 3 7 9 433
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 0 52 1 2 2 346
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 30
Pollution Claim Settlements Reconsidered: Hidden Information and Bounded Payments 0 0 0 31 1 3 4 64
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 1 29 1 5 9 41
Public Procurement in Times of Crisis: The Bundling Decision Reconsidered 0 0 0 11 1 3 4 62
Public Versus Private Ownership: Quantity Contracts and the Allocation of Investment Tasks 0 0 0 183 2 5 9 472
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 31 0 1 2 75
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 10 2 3 5 57
Public-Private Partnerships, Asymmetric Information, and Incomplete Contracts 1 14 14 14 2 11 11 11
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 1 61 1 5 10 284
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 172 5 7 11 320
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 0 0 0 118 1 3 3 364
Repeated Moral Hazard, Limited Liability, and Renegotiation 0 0 0 140 0 0 3 430
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 34 1 9 15 155
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 110 1 9 11 269
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: The case of risk-neutrality 0 0 1 126 0 5 12 326
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 129 2 5 9 462
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 108 2 8 9 421
Reserve prices in auctions as reference points 0 0 0 134 4 5 8 436
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 1 1 57 0 1 1 230
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 77 2 2 3 300
Should a principal hire one agent or two agents to perform two sequential tasks? 0 1 1 53 0 4 7 162
Signaling an Outside Option 0 0 0 28 4 5 6 137
Sollten Haftungsregeln durch Strafen ergänzt werden? 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 71
Task Scheduling and Moral Hazard 0 0 0 64 3 3 7 230
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 0 0 0 99 1 2 3 165
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 59 0 3 4 201
The Costs and Benefits of Additional Information in Agency Models with Endogenous Information Structures 0 0 0 79 2 2 5 181
The Hold-Up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 1 2 742 0 5 13 1,597
The Management of Innovation: Experimental Evidence 0 0 0 67 1 2 6 120
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 16 2 4 5 51
The Negotiators Who Knew Too Much: Transaction Costs and Incomplete Information 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 12
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 1 2 14 1 3 4 27
The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered: Asymmetric Information and Incentive Contracts 0 0 2 8 6 9 12 35
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 20 0 1 3 21
The Right to Quit Work: An Efficiency Rationale for Restricting the Freedom of Contract 0 0 0 6 4 5 7 35
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 43 2 4 7 98
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 39 2 6 6 116
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 92 1 1 2 191
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 28
Unmöglichkeitstheoreme bei asymmetrischer Information 0 0 0 423 2 2 5 643
Unvollständige Verträge und die Grenzen der Firma 0 0 1 36 1 1 3 143
Vertikale Unternehmenskooperationen 0 0 0 545 3 4 5 1,038
Vertragstheorie: Zum Nobelpreis 2016 für Oliver Hart und Bengt Holmström 0 0 1 258 1 2 8 349
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 1 1 5 1 7 10 20
When Should the Government Own the Physical Assets Needed to Provide Public Goods? 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 7
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 0 1 1 328 3 8 10 1,221
Total Working Papers 3 30 57 10,841 205 494 794 32,368
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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 1 1 64 0 2 5 299
Allocating Control in Agency Problems with Limited Liability and Sequential Hidden Actions 0 0 0 2 2 2 5 1,114
Anderson, T. L., and McChesney, F. S. (Eds.): Property Rights – Cooperation, Conflict, and Law 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 35
Asymmetric information and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 14 0 3 5 74
Auctions with Anticipated Emotions: Overbidding, Underbidding, and Optimal Reserve Prices 0 0 1 17 0 2 4 145
Bargaining position, bargaining power, and the property rights approach 0 0 2 38 3 10 19 200
Book Review 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 55
Book reviews 0 0 0 7 1 3 3 59
Can Coasean Bargaining Justify Pigouvian Taxation? 0 1 1 30 2 7 10 194
Can contracts solve the hold-up problem? Experimental evidence 0 3 5 162 2 14 24 428
Cognitive abilities and behavioral biases 2 2 5 197 7 13 35 891
Completely relationship-specific investments, transaction costs, and the property rights theory 0 4 12 83 1 5 23 106
Contracting under Incomplete Information and Social Preferences: An Experimental Study 0 3 10 503 1 5 37 964
Contracting under adverse selection: Certifiable vs. uncertifiable information 0 0 1 18 1 3 6 81
Contracting under asymmetric information and externalities: an experimental study 0 2 7 25 0 5 14 40
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 3 6 119
Die Bedeutung von privater Information f³r Vertragsbeziehungen zwischen Kõufern und Verkõufern 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 170
Do sellers offer menus of contracts to separate buyer types? An experimental test of adverse selection theory 0 1 3 73 2 3 7 146
ENDOGENOUS PUNISHMENTS IN AGENCY WITH VERIFIABLE EX POST INFORMATION * 0 0 0 53 1 1 1 249
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 1 4 5 88
Ex Post Liability for Harm vs. Ex Ante Safety Regulation: Substitutes or Complements? Comment 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 671
Exclusive versus non-exclusive licensing strategies and moral hazard 0 0 0 77 0 1 2 211
Government versus private ownership of public goods: The role of bargaining frictions 0 2 4 98 2 11 13 265
Hidden action and outcome contractibility: An experimental test of moral hazard theory 0 3 4 220 0 6 10 312
How (Not) to Foster Innovations in Public Infrastructure Projects 0 1 2 47 3 5 8 105
How (Not) to Purchase Novel Goods and Services: Specific Performance Versus at-will Contracts 0 1 2 71 0 3 7 92
Incentivizing research with (un)conditional teaching duties: Punishment or rent extraction? 0 5 13 108 2 7 18 117
Incomplete contracts and optimal ownership of public goods 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 105
Incomplete contracts, limited liability, and the optimality of joint ownership 0 0 1 12 2 3 5 50
Incomplete contracts, shared ownership, and investment incentives 0 1 1 16 0 4 7 77
Incomplete contracts, the hold-up problem, and asymmetric information 0 0 1 109 2 4 5 251
Information Gathering, Transaction Costs, and the Property Rights Approach 1 2 5 559 2 9 21 1,720
Information gathering and the hold-up problem in a complete contracting framework 0 0 0 61 2 3 4 158
Investments as signals of outside options 0 0 0 28 2 3 4 133
Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach 0 0 0 9 1 3 4 70
Job design with conflicting tasks reconsidered 1 2 2 68 3 6 10 199
Job protection laws and agency problems under asymmetric information 0 0 0 76 1 2 7 331
Joint Ownership And Incomplete Contracts: The Case Of Perfectly Substitutable Investments 0 0 1 26 2 4 6 141
Joint ownership and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 68 1 2 3 188
Know-how disclosure and incomplete contracts 0 1 1 76 1 3 7 225
Monopolistic Provision of Excludable Public Goods under Private Information 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 361
Moral hazard and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 12 1 2 5 48
On Monopolistic Licensing Strategies under Asymmetric Information 0 0 2 127 1 2 7 298
On second-price auctions and imperfect competition 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 221
On synergies and vertical integration 0 0 0 122 2 6 7 335
On the Interplay of Hidden Action and Hidden Information in Simple Bilateral Trading Problems 0 0 0 335 0 2 7 634
On the joint use of liability and safety regulation 1 1 2 100 2 5 9 314
On the optimality of outsourcing when vertical integration can mitigate information asymmetries 0 1 4 24 1 3 7 46
Optimal allocation of ownership rights in dynamic R&D alliances 0 1 2 116 1 6 9 299
Optimal ownership of public goods in the presence of transaction costs 0 0 1 10 3 5 8 54
Optimal ownership of public goods reconsidered 0 0 0 8 1 1 5 55
Optimal ownership of public goods under asymmetric information 0 1 3 35 2 8 14 97
Optimal selling strategies when buyers may have hard information 0 1 3 102 0 1 4 280
Overdeterrence of repeat offenders when penalties for first-time offenders are restricted 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 51
Partial Privatization and Incomplete Contracts: The Proper Scope of Government Reconsidered 0 1 1 8 1 4 8 508
Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining 0 0 2 22 1 2 6 144
Pollution claim settlements reconsidered: Hidden information and bounded payments 0 0 1 33 1 3 4 73
Public goods and the hold-up problem under asymmetric information 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 75
Public goods, property rights, and investment incentives: An experimental investigation 0 1 1 10 2 5 9 37
Public procurement in times of crisis: The bundling decision reconsidered 0 0 0 10 4 6 8 52
Public versus private ownership: Quantity contracts and the allocation of investment tasks 0 2 5 309 0 6 27 668
Public-private partnerships versus traditional procurement: Innovation incentives and information gathering 1 3 3 66 2 7 11 279
Public–private partnerships versus traditional procurement: An experimental investigation 0 0 2 64 1 9 18 233
Public–private partnerships, asymmetric information, and incomplete contracts 1 8 8 8 4 12 12 12
REPEATED MORAL HAZARD AND CONTRACTS WITH MEMORY: THE CASE OF RISK‐NEUTRALITY 0 0 0 7 3 5 8 124
Randomization in Coalition Contracts 0 0 0 49 1 2 3 135
Randomization in coalition contracts 0 0 0 3 2 2 5 71
Repeated moral hazard and contracts with memory: A laboratory experiment 0 0 0 42 0 4 6 133
Reserve Prices in Auctions as Reference Points 0 0 0 216 3 6 12 647
Should Contractual Clauses that Forbid Renegotiation Always be Enforced? 0 0 0 91 2 5 10 382
Simple contracts, renegotiation under asymmetric information, and the hold-up problem 0 0 0 223 2 3 4 732
Task scheduling and moral hazard 0 0 1 38 2 3 5 133
The (sub-)optimality of the majority rule 1 1 1 26 14 19 23 187
The Coase Theorem, Private Information, and the Benefits of Not Assigning Property Rights 0 0 0 46 0 0 1 129
The Hold-up Problem and Incomplete Contracts: A Survey of Recent Topics in Contract Theory 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 847
The costs and benefits of additional information in agency models with endogenous information structures 2 3 3 64 2 4 6 153
The hold-up problem, innovations, and limited liability 0 0 0 17 1 2 2 72
The management of innovation: Experimental evidence 0 1 1 10 0 1 3 64
The negotiators who knew too much: Transaction costs and incomplete information 0 0 0 8 0 1 4 53
The proper scope of government reconsidered: Asymmetric information and incentive contracts 0 4 17 102 1 8 28 123
The right to quit work: An efficiency rationale for restricting the freedom of contract 0 0 1 13 1 5 7 38
Transaction costs and the property rights approach to the theory of the firm 0 0 0 31 0 4 9 137
When should the government own the physical assets needed to provide public goods? 0 6 16 33 2 9 23 50
Workplace surveillance, privacy protection, and efficiency wages 0 2 3 394 1 5 15 1,269
Total Journal Articles 10 72 168 6,147 122 363 750 21,644


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