Courts' Decisions, Cooperative Investments, and Incomplete Contracts
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Keywords
Cooperative Investments; Courts; Defective Specifications; Design Failure; Expectation Damages; Formal and Real Authority; Incomplete Contracts; Relational Contracts. JEL classifications: D23; D86; K12; L23; L24.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2018-08-13 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-LAW-2018-08-13 (Law and Economics)
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