Showing posts with label contracts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contracts. Show all posts
Monday, January 5, 2026

Prenups: formerly repugnant, now online

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 The New Yorker writes about prenuptial agreements that can be written online, and not just for the wealthy. Why Millennials Love Prenups Lo...
Monday, November 13, 2023

More on Realtor's contracts and practices, and the recent court decision

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 Here are some further articles with some details about the recent court decision that real estate contracts are anticompetitive . Both are ...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Sex work contracts are enforceable in small claims court, in Canada

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 In Nova Scotia (where selling sex is legal but buying it is not), a sex worker sued a delinquent client for her fee and won (despite his ar...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Lawsuits involving NKR's kidney exchange contracts

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  Kim Krawiec, the Sullivan & Cromwell Professor of Law at the University of Virginia,  sheds some light on recent legal exchanges betwe...
Monday, November 1, 2021

Contract design (by lawyers for users...)

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  Here's an interview from the legal blog Above the Law: Why The Time For Better Contract Design Is Now . Q&A with Stefania Passera ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Contracts can be more than salaries: Hassidim, Romm, and Shorrer in EL

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Not all matching with contracts is simple: here's a recent paper that helps put that in perspective. Assaf Romm writes: "despite...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Blockchains, smart contracts, and incomplete contracts (and Prysm Group, a startup consulting firm on all that)

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There's a lot of talk lately about smart contracts, i.e. contracts written in executable code, but less talk about how all contracts ar...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Wife swapping: it's hard to make binding contracts for repugnant transactions

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Yannai Gonczarowski writes: "A week ago, the following question was asked on a popular Israeli web forum that discusses legal ques...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Matching with (sexual) contracts, by Arcidiacono, Beauchamp, and McElroy

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Quantitative Economics, Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2016) Terms Of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model Of Sex And Matching Peter Arcidiaco...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

No-nup agreements: contracts for cohabitation

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The NY Times has a story on contracts that some unmarried couples are signing:  All the Conventional Cohabitation, but No Nuptials "...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

Could academic tenure become a repugnant transaction?

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In an essay in the NY Times Book Review, Christopher Shea reflects on some recent books that suggest it might: The End of Tenure? "In...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Behavioral contract design; Steve Leider

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Steve Leider defended his dissertation last week. He's an eclectic experimenter, but among his varied interests is how insights from psy...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Economics of Contracts

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The Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will hold its 20th annual Economics summer school this year from June...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Contracts for basketball players: the principal-agent problem in a team sport

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The NY Times has a fascinating article on basketball, focused on the Rockets' Shane Battier: The No-Stats All-Star . But the larger focu...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Contract Design: Rights of First Refusal

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Brit Grosskopf and I have just published a paper on an interesting variant of a familiar contract. It's called: " If you are offere...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Bankruptcy

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Contracts are shaped in part by the legal framework that determines what happens when contracts break down. The long time scholar of bankrup...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Markets for durables when credit is tight

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Two stories in the NY Times reflect changes in markets for durable goods and for real estate in the context of tight credit: layaway plans a...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Market for wind, and information

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A Land Rush in Wyoming Spurred by Wind Power "The man who came to Elsie Bacon’s ranch house door in July asked the 71-year-old widow to...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

NBER working papers on design of partnerships and auctions

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Two new NBER papers touch on market design: Hilt and O'Banion discuss the introduction of limited partnerships, and Bajari and Yeo look ...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

Kol Nidre: Contract law when your counterparty is omnipotent

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Michael Weiss recounts in Slate how the Kol Nidre prayer , has changed over time.