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Contracts and externalities: how things fall apart

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The externalities of principal-agent relationship are discussed. Assuming contracts to be bilateral, a principal's approach to the job of issuing contracts to agents, when there is no coordination failure among them, is analyzed.

Author: Ray, Debraj, Genicot, Garance
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2006
United States, Contracts & orders received, Goods & services distribution, Channels of Distribution, Contracts & orders let, Economic aspects, Behavior, Contract agreement, Distribution, Externalities (Economics), Commercial agents, Company distribution practices

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Menu theorems for bilateral contracting

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The application of menu theorems to understand the allocations equilibrium in a bilateral contracting environment where multiple principals issue contracts independently to multiple agents is analyzed.

Author: Han, Seungjin
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2006
Canada, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis

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p-Best response set

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A study on equilibrium selection using the set-valued concept, which is based on p-dominance concept of game theory, is presented. p-best response set is a generalized form of p-dominance concept.

Author: Tercieux, Olivier
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Economic Theory
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0022-0531
Year: 2006
France, Set theory, Fuzzy sets

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Subjects list: Analysis, Management, Contracts, Company business management, Agency (Law), Methods, Usage, Game theory, Equilibrium (Economics)
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