Contracts are a pragmatic tool for managing software systems, but programs using contracts suffer runtime overhead. If this overhead becomes a performance bottleneck, programmers must manually edit or remove their contracts. This is no good. Rather, the contracts should identify their own inefficiencies and remove unnecessary dynamic checks. Implementing contracts with Rosette is a promising wa...

contrary to iranian and german law which do not agree on legal status of contracts obtained by corruption, in common law system such contract is typically deemed against public policy and void. but icsid convention, in spite of relying on public policy, considers these contracts voidable.

This paper relates predictable gains from positions in fed funds futures contracts to violations of the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates. Although evidence for predictable gains from positions in short-horizon contracts is mixed, we find that gains in longer-horizon contracts can be well described using Markov switching models, with predictability associated with ...

This explorative study examines customer-supplier relationships from the perspective of psychological contracts. Based on findings from a multiple case study, the content of the psychological contracts of individuals involved in customer-supplier relationships are presented. The study provides support for the use of psychological contracts for describing the dynamics of customer-supplier relati...

This article discusses the limitations of the orthodox economic theory of the firm as a nexus of contracts. Various experimental studies have shown that the aggregation of individuals in groups changes behavior and preferences systematically. This perspective has been formalized by models of interdependent preferences. Based on a prominent approach of interdependent preferences, intention-based...

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  Supply chain includes two or more parties linked by flow of goods, information, and funds. In a decentralized system, supply chain members make decision regardless of their decision's effects on the performance of the other members and the entire supply chain. This is the key issue in supply chain management, that the mechanism should be developed in which different objectives should be align...