Encyclopedia of Law & Economics – 4500 Unforeseen Contingencies – Risk Allocation (incl. symmetric information imperfections)

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Chisholm, Darlene C. (1997), ‘Profit-Sharing Versus Fixed-Payment Contracts: Evidence From the Motion Pictures Industry’, 13 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 169-201.
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Gillette, Clayton P. (1985), ‘Commercial Rationality and the Duty to Adjust Long-Term Contracts’, 69 Minnesota Law Review , 521 ff.
Goldberg, Victor P. (1985), ‘Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts’, Wisconsin Law Review , 527-543. Reprinted in Speidel, Summers and White, Commercial Law: Teaching Materials, fourth edition, 1987.
Goldberg, Victor P. (1988), ‘Impossibility and Related Excuses’, 144 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , 100-116.
Hansmann, Henry B. and Kraakman, Reinier H. (1992), ‘Hands-Tying Contracts: Book Publishing, Venture Capital Financing, and Secured Debt’, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 628-655.
Hasen, Richard L. (1990), ‘Comment, Efficiency Under Informational Asymmetry: The Effect of Framing on Legal Rules’, 38 UCLA Law Review , 391 ff.
Hurst, Thomas R. (1976), ‘Freedom of Contract in an Unstable Economy: Judicial Reallocation of Contractual Risks under UOC’ Section 2-615′, 54 North Carolina Law Review , 545-583.
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Koller, Ingo (1979), Die Risikozurechnung bei Vertragsstrungen in Austauschvertrgen (The Risk Allocation of Contract Disturbances in Bilateral Contracts) , Mnchen, C.H. Beck, 474 p.
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Miceli, Thomas J. (1995), ‘Renegotiation of Listing Contracts, Seller Opportunism, and Efficiency: an Economic Analysis’, 23 Real Estate Economics , 369-383.
Pardolesi, Roberto (1996), ‘Regole di default e razionalit limitata: per un (diverso) approccio di analisi economica al diritto dei contratti (Default rules and bounded rationality: for a (different) economic approach to contract law)’, Rivista critica del diritto privato , 451-466.
Pardolesi, Roberto (1996), ‘Regole di default e razionalit.. limitata: per un (diverso) approccio di analisi economica al diritto dei contratti (Default rules and bounded rationality: for a different economic approach to contract law)’, Rivista critica del diritto privato .
Perloff, Jeffrey M. (1981), ‘The Effects of Breaches of Forward Contracts Due to Unanticipated Price Changes’, 10 Journal of Legal Studies , 221-235.
Phillips, Jenny (1978), ‘Comments on Posner’s and Rosenfield’s Paper’, in Skogh, Gran (ed.), Law and Economics. Report from a Symposium in Lund , Lund, Juridiska Freningen, 95-96.
Polinsky, A. Mitchell (1983), ‘Risk Sharing through Breach of Contract Remedies’, 12 Journal of Legal Studies , 427-444.
Polinsky, A. Mitchell (1987), ‘Fixed Price versus Spot Price Contracts: A Study in Risk Allocation’, 3(1) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 27-46.
Polinsky, Mitchell A. (1987), ‘Fixed Price versus Spot Price Contracts: A Study in Risk Allocation’, 3 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 27-46.
Posner, Richard A. and Rosenfield, Andrew M. (1977), ‘Impossibility and Related Doctrines in Contract Law: An Economic Analysis’, 6 Journal of Legal Studies , 83-118. Reprinted in Skogh, Gran (ed.), Law and Economics. Report from a Symposium in Lund, Sweden, 24-26 August 1977; Lund, Juridiska Freningen, 1978; 57-94. in Goldberg, Victor P. (ed.), Readings in the Economics of Contract Law, Readings in the Economics of Contract Law, 1989, 200-212.
Rasmusen, Eric and Ayres, Ian (1993), ‘Mutual and Unilateral Mistake in Contract Law’, 22 Journal of Legal Studies , 309-343.
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Schwartze, Andreas (1988), ‘Die Beseitigung des Wegfalls der Geschftsgrundlage: Zur wirtschaftlichen Effizienz und zur juristischen Konsistenz eines konomischen Modells’ [The Abolition of the Frustration of Contract: On Economic Efficiency and Legal Consistency of an Economic’, Recht und Risiko , 155-170.
Seita, Alex Y. (1984), ‘Uncertainty and Contract Law’, 46 University of Pittsburgh Law Review , 75-148.
Smith, Janet Kiholm (1987), ‘Trade Credit and Informational Asymmetry’, 42 Journal of Finance , 863-872.
Smith, Janet Kiholm and Cox, Steven R. (1985), ‘The Pricing of Legal Services: A Contractual Solution to the Problem of Bilateral Opportunism’, 14 Journal of Legal Studies , 167-183.
Smith, Janet Kiholm and Smith, Richard L. (1985), ‘A Theory of Ex Post Versus Ex Ante Price Determination’, 23 Economic Inquiry , 57-67.
Smith, Janet Kiholm and Smith, Richard L. (1990), ‘Contract Law, Mutual Mistake, and Incentives to Produce and Disclose Information’, 19 Journal of Legal Studies , 467-488.
Speidel, Richard E. (1981), ‘Court-Imposed Price Adjustements Under Long-Term Supply Contracts’, 76 Northwestern University Law Review , 369-422.
Spier, Kathryn E. (1992), ‘Incomplete Contracts and Signalling’, 23 (3) Rand Journal of Economics , 432-443.
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Sykes, Alan O. (1990), ‘The Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability in a Second-best World’, 19 Journal of Legal Studies , 43-94.
Triantis, George G. (1992), ‘Contractual Allocation of Unknown Risks: A Critique of the Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability’, 42 University of Toronto Law Journal , 450-483.
Trimarchi, Pietro (1989), ‘Der Wegfall der Geschftsgrundlage aus allokativer Sicht – Kommentar (The Frustration of Contract from an Allocative Sig)’, in Ott, Claus and Schfer, Hans-Bernd (eds.), Allekationseffizienz in der Rechtsordnung , Berlin, Springer, 163-167.
Trimarchi, Pietro (1991), ‘Commercial Impracticability in Contract Law: An Economic Analysis’, 11 International Review of Law and Economics , 63-82.
Vandegrift, Donald (1997), ‘Decision Costs, Contract Excuse and the Westinghouse Commercial Impracticability Case’, 4 European Journal of Law and Economics , 41-54.
Veljanovski, Cento G. (1988), ‘Impossibility and Related Excuses: Comment’, 144 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , 117-121.
Warren, Elizabeth (1981), ‘Trade Usage and Parties in the Trade: An Economic Rationale for an Inflexible Rule’, 42 University of Pittsburgh Law Review , 515 ff.
White, Michelle J. (1988), ‘Contract Breach and Contract Discharge due to Impossibility: A Unified Theory’, 17 Journal of Legal Studies , 353-376.
Wladis, John D. (1988), ‘Impracticability as Risk Allocation: The Effect of Changed Circumstances Upon Contract Obligations for the Sale of Goods’, 22 Georgia Law Review , 503 ff.