Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22932 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Bonn Econ Discussion Papers No. 26/2005
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Bonn
Abstract: 
Recent work in the field of mechanism design has led some researchers to propose institutional changes that would permit parties to enter into nonmodifiable contracts, which is not possible under current contract law. This paper demonstrates that it may well be socially desirable not to enforce contractual terms that explicitly prevent renegotiation, even if rational and symmetrically informed parties have deliberately signed such a contract. The impossibility to prevent renegotiation can constrain the principal’s abilities to introduce distortions in order to reduce the agent’s rent, so that the first-best benchmark solution will more often be attained.
Subjects: 
Contract modification
Renegotiation
Moral hazard
JEL: 
K12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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