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| Title: | | Contracts and promises: an approach to pre-play agreements  |
| Authors: | | Miettinen, Topi |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2008,088 |
| Abstract: | | In line with the widely applied principle of just deserts, we assume that the severity of the penalty on a contract offender increases in the harm on the other. When this principle holds, the influence of the efficiency of the agreement on the incentives to abide by it crucially depends on whether actions are strategic complements or substitutes. With strategic substitutes, there is a conflict between Pareto-efficiency and the incentives to abide. The opposite tends to be true when actions are strategic complements. The results are interpreted in the context of legal contracts and in that of informal mutual promises. |
| Subjects: | | Partnerships contracts pre-play communication legal enforcement social norms guilt |
| JEL: | | C72 C78 K12 Z13 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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