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- February 1984 (Revised March 1984)
- Teaching Note
Environmental Protection Agency: Emergency Pesticide Exemptions, Teaching Note
By: David E. Bell
- June 1983
- Article
A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts
By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy Stokey
Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is... View Details
- Article
Wage-Employment Contracts
By: Jerry R. Green and Charles M. Kahn
This paper studies the efficient agreements about the dependence of workers' earnings on employment, when the employment level is controlled by firms. The firms' superior information about profitability conditions is responsible for this form of contract governance.... View Details
- Article
Bilateral Contracts
By: Jerry R. Green and Seppo Honkapohja
A mathematical characterization of self-enforcing bilateral contracts is given. Contracts where both parties exercise some control over the quantity traded can sometimes be superior to contracts that rest control entirely with one side. Some qualitative characteristics... View Details
- September 1982 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
Barbara J. Key vs. the Gillette Co. (B)
Keywords: Courts and Trials
- September 1982 (Revised October 1990)
- Case
Barbara J. Key vs. the Gillette Co. (A)
Keywords: Courts and Trials
- fall 1982
- Article
Risk-Spreading Properties of Common Tax and Contract Instruments
By: James K. Sebenius and Peter Stan
- November 1981 (Revised January 1983)
- Case
Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (B)
By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- October 1980 (Revised October 1981)
- Case
Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (A1)
By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- October 1980 (Revised October 1981)
- Case
Ready to Regulate Ready to Eat (A2)
By: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- February 1979 (Revised December 1983)
- Case
Allied Chemical Corp. (A)
Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an... View Details
- spring 1978
- Article
Reflections on Women and the Legal Profession: A Sociological Perspective
By: R. M. Kanter
- February 1977 (Revised May 1980)
- Case