Contract Incomplete-Ness is a theoretical construct in Public-Private Partnership Economics that denotes the inherent limitation of contractual agreements in specifying all future contingencies, governance actions, and performance expectations due to bounded rationality, opportunism, and transaction-specific investments, thereby distinguishing it from complete contracts that assume full foreseeability and enforceability of all terms.
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Contract Incompleteness
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An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting
Philippe Aghion, Patrick Bolton · The Review of Economic Studies · 1992 · 2.2K citations
Business, Contract Law, Economics +15
Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation
Oliver Hart, John Moore · Econometrica · 1988 · 1.9K citations
Business, Contract Law, Economics +15
Uri Gneezy, Aldo Rustichini · The Journal of Legal Studies · 2000 · 1.8K citations
Unforeseen Contingencies and Incomplete Contracts
Eric Maskin, Jean Tirole · The Review of Economic Studies · 1999 · 788 citations
Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm
Oliver Hart · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization · 1988 · 647 citations · Full text
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Centre for Economic Policy Research
London, United Kingdom
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20 publications
609 citations
Harvard University
Cambridge, United States
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1.2K citations
National Bureau of Economic Research
Cambridge, United States
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1.2K citations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, United States
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London School of Economics and Political Science
London, United Kingdom
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Princeton University
Princeton, United States
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3.6K citations
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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Columbia University
New York, United States
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- SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 34 publications · 932 citations
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 15 publications · 654 citations
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- The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
LEO · 10 publications · 1.4K citations
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- eYLS (Yale Law School)
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