The plight of academic staff hired on short-term contracts, who often have little chance of eventually acquiring a permanent job, is long-standing. Many therefore welcomed the EU's efforts to introduce regulations which obliged employers to offer permanent jobs to most staff after the successful completion of a period of casual contracts. But fears are growing that universities may lay off acad...

s and Conference Papers Conference Papers Index Scopus Grants and Federally Funded Research NIH RePORTER (a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions) HSRPROJ (a database providing access to ongoing grants and contracts in health services research) Other Miscellaneous Sources Hayes, Inc. Health Tech...

When do participants in a market have the incentive to enter into agreements that exclude potential entrants? This paper synthesizes, extends and illustrates the theory of exclusionary contracts. In a model of incumbent contracts with downstream buyers, a “Chicago benchmark”yields no incentive for exclusionary long term contracts. Departures from the benchmark in each of three directions yield ...

A number of studies exist in relation to monitoring/regulation of complex forms of water operations management contracts, particularly leases and concessions. The latter are implemented, more rationally, in operating environments where perceived market entry risks have been adequately mitigated prior to actual implementation of reforms. In these cases, it is possible to implement incentive acti...

This study examines the moderating effect of buyer-supplier trust on the relationship between outsourced formal contracts and supplier delivery performance in the domain of public sector procurement. In so doing, we extend the paradigm that formal contracts and relational governance mechanism function as complements rather than substitutes. Using a cross sectional data from a survey of 612 staf...

The research presented in this work is motivated by recent papers by Brigo et al. [5, 6], Burgard and Kjaer [7, 8, 10], Crépey [14, 15], Fujii and Takahashi [21], Piterbarg [38] and Pallavicini et al. [37]. Our goal is to provide a sound theoretical underpinning for some results presented in these papers by developing a unified framework for the non-linear approach to hedging and pricing of OTC...

This paper analyzes a model of moral hazard in portfolio management. Managers wish to earn the higher fees associated with active management but are averse to the effort of identifying superior trading strategies through research. Previous research has focused on contracts which offer explicit incentives. In this paper I address optimal contracting between an investor and a portfolio manager wh...

The increasing complexity of construction, along with its rapid development, as well as ambiguities and gaps in the legal terms governing constructions, lack of trust in the parties regarding obligations and regulations are the main reasons of disagreements in domestic projects. These disagreements are inevitable even in contracts which are set correctly. Disagreements are costly, time-consumin...