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Contract Design

Contract Design is a subfield of contract and agency theory that studies and prescribes the optimal structure and content of contractual arrangements—specifying rights, obligations, incentives, control and enforcement mechanisms—under given informational, institutional, and transactional constraints, in order to align parties’ interests and allocate risks in settings including international joint ventures.

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Separation of Ownership and Control

Eugene F. Fama, Michael C. Jensen · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1983 · 19.1K citations

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Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations

Oliver E. Williamson · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1979 · 10.1K citations

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The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration

Sanford J. Grossman, Oliver Hart · Journal of Political Economy · 1986 · 9.5K citations · Full text

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The economic institutions of capitalism firms, markets, relational contracting

Oliver E. Williamson · 1987 · 7.3K citations

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Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process

Benjamin Klein, Robert Crawford, Armen A. Alchian · The Journal of Law and Economics · 1978 · 5.9K citations

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    Robert E. Scott

    Mayo Clinic, United States

    20 publications · 1.8K citations

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    Oliver Hart

    Harvard University, United States

    18 publications · 17.1K citations

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    Yongqiang Chen

    Tianjin University, China

    12 publications · 750 citations

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    Islam H. El-adaway

    Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States

    13 publications · 331 citations

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    David Martimort

    Paris School of Economics, France

    11 publications · 801 citations

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  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    37 h-index

    78 publications

    7.1K citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    32 h-index

    55 publications

    7.5K citations

  3. University of Hong Kong

    Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

    30 h-index

    60 publications

    4.3K citations

  4. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    30 h-index

    53 publications

    6.3K citations

  5. Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    29 h-index

    64 publications

    4.5K citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    29 h-index

    57 publications

    11.5K citations

  7. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    28 h-index

    42 publications

    7.5K citations

  8. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    27 h-index

    50 publications

    5.6K citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 254 publications · 10.7K citations

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  2. Management Science

    53 publications · 7.9K citations

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  4. American Economic Review

    41 publications · 10.2K citations

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  5. European Journal of Operational Research

    50 publications · 2.9K citations

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