This thesis is a collection of essays on contract theory and behavioral economics. Chapter 1 proposes a model of choice under risk based on imperfect memory and self-deception. The model assumes that people have preferences over their own attributes and can, to some extent, manipulate their memories. It leads to a non-expected utility representation and provides a unified explanation for severa...

This is a readings course. The lectures are designed to distill the central ideas of the readings into models capturing the main insights leaving many of the technical details to be explained in the readings themselves. The hope is that the combination of being exposed to the motivating problems for many of these excursions in contract theory combined with the modeling exercise of distilling th...

The change of the mode of narration from first person in the drafts to third person in the final version of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment has received surprisingly little attention from either literary critics1 or linguists. Yet the first-person drafts contain episodes depicting the same events as in Dostoevsky's final text, providing perfect laboratory conditions for exploring both t...

Let G be a toroidal graph without cycles of a fixed length k, and l (G) the list chromatic number of G. We establish tight upper bounds Contract grant sponsor: RGC; Contract grant number: CUHK4165/01E (to L. C.); Contract grant sponsor: NSFC; Contract grant number: 10771197 (to W. W.); Contract grant sponsor: ZJNSFC; Contract grant number: Z6090150 (to W. W.); Contract grant sponsor: NSC97-2115...

493 In a recent paper Hart and Moore (2008) develop a theory which provides a basis for long-term contracts in the absence of noncontractible investments. The theory is also capable of rationalizing the employment contract, which fixes wages in advance and leaves discretion to the employer. However, the theory rests on strong behavioral assumptions that lack direct empirical support and deviate...

A k-fold coloring of a graph is a function that assigns to each vertex a set of k colors, so that the color sets assigned to adjacent Contract grant sponsor: NSFC; Contract grant number: 10671033 (to W.L.); Contract grant sponsor: National Science Foundation; Contract grant number: DMS 0302456 (to D.D.L.); Contract grant sponsor: National Science Council; Contract grant number: NSC95-2115-M-110...

Introduction: With a definition that is evolving, a serious component of the contract cheating issue involves individuals paying a third-party to complete assessment items for them and then submitting this work as if it were their own. The issue of contract cheating poses a significant problem for tertiary institutions. The research literature conducted to date has addressed contract cheating, ...

In her engaging and useful book, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice, Katy Barnett presents a theory of disgorgement damages for breach of contract. This is a welcome publication, as disgorgement damages continue to present both theoretical and practical puzzles for the law of contract, and Barnett makes a valuable contribution to this important topic. By way of ba...