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Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advancements and Open Questions, journal of institutional and theoretical economics

Abstract

Relational contracts – informal self-enforcing agreements sustained by repeated interactions – are ubiquitous both within and across organizational boundaries. This review highlights recent empirical contributions in selected areas.We begin by reviewing some recent work that explicitly takes the dynamic enforcement constraints that underpin relational contract theory to the data. We then discuss the relationship between relational contracting and firms’ performance. We conclude by pointing in directions that we consider to be particularly ripe for future work.

Type

Article

Author(s)

Ameet Morjaria, Rocco Macchiavello

Date Published

2023

Citations

Morjaria, Ameet, and Rocco Macchiavello. 2023. Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advancements and Open Questions. journal of institutional and theoretical economics.(3-4): 673-700.

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