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| Title: | | Partnership dissolution, complementarity, and investment incentives  |
| Authors: | | Li, Jianpei Wolfstetter, Elmar |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working papers 1325 |
| Abstract: | | We study a partnership that anticipates its possible dissolution. In our model, partnerships form in order to take advantage of complementary skills; although new opportunities may arise that make partners? skills useless. We characterize the optimal, incentive-compatible partnership contract that can be implemented by a simple call option, and then analyze the commonly used buy?sell provision. We show that this dissolution rule gives rise to inefficiency, either in the form of excessive dissolutions combined with underinvestment or efficient dissolutions combined with overinvestment. However, supplementing the buy?sell provision with the right to veto may restore efficiency. |
| JEL: | | L24 J12 D82 K12 C78 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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