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Penalty Rule

Penalty Rule is a legal doctrine in contract law that renders unenforceable contractual terms imposing excessive or punitive detriment on a breaching party, distinguishing it from compensatory damages by targeting clauses whose primary purpose is deterrence rather than genuine pre-estimation of loss.

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2017–2026

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Rule Against Penalties

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86

Sensitivity analysis for nonlinear programming using penalty methods

Anthony V. Fiacco · Mathematical Programming · 1976 · 386 citations

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The optimal use of fines and imprisonment

Steven Shavell · Journal of Public Economics · 1984 · 335 citations

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Penalty methods for American options with stochastic volatility

R. Zvan, Peter Forsyth, K.R. Vetzal · Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics · 1998 · 289 citations

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Finite element methods for constrained problems in elasticity

J. Tinsley Oden, Noboru Kikuchi · International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering · 1982 · 210 citations

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Penalty Clauses: Are They Governed by the CISG?

Bruno Zeller · Pace international law review · 2011 · 176 citations · Full text

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Authors

186

  1. AV
    Anthony V. Fiacco

    George Washington University, United States

    2 publications · 407 citations

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  2. AN
    Aristides N. Hatzis

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

    2 publications · 219 citations

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  3. GG
    Guangxia Gao

    Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, China

    2 publications · 27 citations

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  4. RR
    R. Ramanathan

    University of California San Diego, United States

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  5. ZZ
    Zhiwang Zhang

    Ludong University, China

    2 publications · 27 citations

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Institutions

115

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    100 citations

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

    Athens, Greece

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    219 citations

  3. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    363 citations

  4. Shandong Institute of Business and Technology

    Yantai, China

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

  5. Ludong University

    Yantai, China

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

  6. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    912 citations

  7. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    40 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 4 publications · 287 citations

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  3. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

    3 publications · 218 citations

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  5. Computers & Structures

    2 publications · 53 citations

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