Contracting between Firms: Empirical Evidence

We analyze contracts between a large buyer and her suppliers. We find that contracts with critical product suppliers contain more clauses that address moral hazard, primarily through monitoring. If holdup concerns are larger, there are more contractual protections against it. Over time, contracts wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sautner, Zacharias, Iyer, Rajkamal Janakiraman
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115282
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3193-0441