This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the empirical literature in transaction cost
economics (TCE) across multiple social science disciplines and business fields. We show …

Soil fertility depletion is considered one of the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing
per capita food production for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption and …

We study the investment analyses of 67 portfolio investments by 11 venture capital (VC)
firms. VCs describe the strengths and risks of the investments as well as expected …

Contractual arrangements involving revenue/profit sharing are often based on fairly simple,
often linear, rules. In addition, in many contexts these contracts are not finely adjusted to the …

Empirical work on contracts typically regresses contract choice on observed principal and
agent characteristics. If (i) some of these characteristics are unobserved or partially …

Revenue sharing contracts, in which retailers pay a royalty on sales to their suppliers, are
now widely used in the video rental industry. We show that revenue sharing is valuable in …

While the theoretical literature on contracts has been enormous since the seventies,
empirical tests of the theory have long remained scarce. However, new empirical work has …

Parce qu'elles sont susceptibles d'influer sur les législations contractuelles, les politiques et
les pratiques industrielles, il est important que les théories des contrats se basent, autant …

A contract is an agreement under which two parties make reciprocal commitments in terms
of their behavior to coordinate. As this concept has become essential to economics in the …