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

  • Adams, Michael (1986), ‘Der Irrtum Ÿber “kŸnftige Sachverhalte” – Anwendungsbeispiel und EinfŸrhung in die škonomische Analyse des Rechts’, RECHT, Zeitschrift fŸr juristische Ausbildung und Praxis , 14-23.
  • Adams, Michael (1986), ‘Zur Behandlung von IrrtŸmern und Offenbarungspflichten im Vertragsrecht (On Mistake and Information Revelation Duties in Contract Law)’, 186 Archiv fŸr die civilistische Praxis , 453-489.
  • Aivazian, Varouj A., Trebilcock, Michael J. and Penny, Michael (1984), ‘The Law of Contract Modifications: The Uncertain Quest for a Benchmark of Enforceability’, 22 Osgoode Hall Law Journal , 173-212. Reprinted in Goldberg, Victor P. (ed.), Readings in the Economics of Contract Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 207.
  • Ashley, Stephen S. (1975), ‘The Economic Implications of the Doctrine of Impossibility’, 26 Hastings Law Journal , 1251-1276.
  • Barnes, David W. and Stout, Lynn A. (1992), Economics of Contract Law , Minneapolis, West Publishing.
  • Bellantuono, Giuseppe (1995), ‘Polizza fideiussoria, reticenza e obblighi di informazione (Performance bond, non-disclosure and duties of information)’, Il Foro Italiano , 1905-1909.
  • Birmingham, Robert L. (1969), ‘A Second Look at Suez Canal Cases: Excuse for Nonperformance of Contractual Obligations in the Light of Economic Theory’, 20 Hastings Law Journal , 1393-1416.
  • Brinig, Margaret F. and Alexeev, Michael V. (1995), ‘Fraud in Courtship: Annulment and Divorce’, 2 European Journal of Law and Economics , 45-63.
  • Bruce, Christopher J. (1982), ‘An Economic Analysis of the Impossibility Doctrine’, 11 Journal of Legal Studies , 311-323.
  • Centner, Terence J. and Wetzstein, Michael E. (1987), ‘Reducing Moral Hazard Associated With Implied Warranties of Animal Health’, 68 American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 143-150.
  • Centner, Terence J. and Wetzstein, Michael E. (1988), ‘Reducing Moral Hazard Associated With Implied Warranties of Animal Health: Reply’, 70 American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 413-414.
  • Chami, Ralph (1996), ‘King Lear’s Dilemma: Precommitment Versus the Last Word’, 52 Economics Letters , 171-176.
  • Chami, Ralph and Fischer, Jeffrey (1996), ‘Altruism, Matching and Nonmarket Insurance’, 34 Economic Inquiry , 630-647.
  • Chisholm, Darlene C. (1993), ‘Asset Specificity and Long-Term Contracts: The Case of the Motion-Pictures Industry’, 19 Eastern Economic Journal , 143-155.
  • Chisholm, Darlene C. (1996), ‘Continuous Degrees of Residual Claimancy: Some Contractual Evidence’, 3 Applied Economics Letters , 739-741.
  • 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.
  • Frech, H. Edward III and Decanio, Stephen J. (1993), ‘Vertical Contracts: A Natural Experiment in Gas Pipeline Regulation’, 149 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics , 370-392.
  • 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.
  • Johnsen, D. Bruce, and (1995), ‘The Quasi-Rent Structure of Corporate Enterprise: A Transaction Cost Theory’, 44 Emory Law Journal , 1277 ff.
  • Johnsen, D. Bruce, Habib, Michel A. and Naik, Narayan Y., ‘Spin-offs and Information’, Journal of Financial Intermediation .
  • Joskow, Paul L. (1977), ‘Commercial Impossibility, the Uranium Market and the Westinghouse Case’, 6 Journal of Legal Studies , 119-176.
  • Koller, Ingo (1979), Die Risikozurechnung bei Vertragsstšrungen in AustauschvertrŠgen (The Risk Allocation of Contract Disturbances in Bilateral Contracts) , MŸnchen, C.H. Beck, 474 p.
  • MacKaay, Ejan and Fabien, Claude (1983), ‘Le Droit Civil aux Prises avec l’Inflation’, Revue de Droit de McGill , 284-334.
  • MacKaay, Ejan and Fabien, Claude (1984), ‘Civil Law ande the Fight against Inflation – A Legal and Economic Analysis of the Quebec Case’, Louisiana Law Review , 719-754.
  • Miceli, Thomas J. (1995), ‘Contract Modification When Litigating for Damages Is Costly’, 15 International Review of Law and Economics , 87-99.
  • 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 razionalitˆ 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, Gšran (ed.), Law and Economics. Report from a Symposium in Lund , Lund, Juridiska Fšreningen, 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, Gšran (ed.), Law and Economics. Report from a Symposium in Lund, Sweden, 24-26 August 1977; Lund, Juridiska Fšreningen, 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.
  • Schwartz, Alan (1976), ‘Sales Law and Inflations’, 50 Southern California Law Review , 1 ff. Reprinted in Kronman, Anthony T. and Posner, Richard A. (eds.), The Economics of Contract Law, Boston, Little Brown, 1979, 138-142.
  • Schwartze, Andreas (1988), ‘Die Beseitigung des Wegfalls der GeschŠftsgrundlage: Zur wirtschaftlichen Effizienz und zur juristischen Konsistenz eines škonomischen 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.
  • Stout, Lynn A. and Barnes, David D. (1992), Economics of Contract Law , West Publishing.
  • 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 GeschŠftsgrundlage aus allokativer Sicht – Kommentar (The Frustration of Contract from an Allocative Sig)’, in Ott, Claus and SchŠfer, 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.
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