Incomplete Contracts

Incomplete Contracts is a branch of contract theory that analyzes contractual arrangements in which the parties cannot specify or enforce a complete set of actions and contingencies ex ante due to informational, verifiability, complexity, or transaction-cost limitations.

282

Publications

24.3K

Citations

357

Authors

244

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Incomplete Contracting

Parents

Contract Theory

Children

Contract Design Under IncompletenessDefault Rules In ContractsEx Post BargainingIncentive ProvisionIncomplete Contract TheoryIncomplete Long-term ContractsNonverifiable EffortNonverifiable InvestmentObservable EffortOutsourcing Contracts

Publications

282

Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation

Oliver Hart, John Moore · Econometrica · 1988 · 1.9K citations

Business, Contract Law, Economics +15

Incomplete Contracts: Where do We Stand?

Jean Tirole · Econometrica · 1999 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Business, Business Economics, Contract Law +12

Accountability and decentralisation in government: An incomplete contracts model

Paul Seabright · European Economic Review · 1996 · 838 citations

Public Affairs, Public Administration, Public Policy +12

Unforeseen Contingencies and Incomplete Contracts

Eric Maskin, Jean Tirole · The Review of Economic Studies · 1999 · 788 citations

Business, Business Economics, Economics +17

Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Oliver Hart · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization · 1988 · 647 citations · Full text

Business, Business Economics, Economics +15

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Authors

357

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Oliver Hart
Harvard University, United States
11 publications · 3.3K citations
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Robert E. Scott
Mayo Clinic, United States
6 publications · 336 citations
6
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Jean Tirole
Institut d'Économie Industrielle, France
6 publications · 2.7K citations
6
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EM
Eric Maskin
Harvard University Press, United States
6 publications · 1K citations
6
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David Martimort
Paris School of Economics, France
5 publications · 183 citations
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Institutions

244

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 36 publications · 1.6K citations
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American Economic Review
14 publications · 2.4K citations
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eYLS (Yale Law School)
Repository · 10 publications · 361 citations
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The Journal of Law Economics and Organization
LEO · 10 publications · 1.2K citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 9 publications · 188 citations
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