Social Preferences and Relational Contracting Performance: An Experimental Investigation
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Keywords
Contracts; relational contracts; implicit contracts; market interaction; experimental economics; repeated transaction; social preferences.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2005-09-29 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2005-09-29 (Law and Economics)
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