Specific investments, holdup, and the outside option principle

European Economic Review

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1399-1410

  Sloof, Randolph ^a,b,c   Sonnemans, Joep ^a,b,d   Oosterbeek, Hessel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research   (Netherlands)

^d CREED   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contractual solutions; Experiments; Holdup problem; Outside option principle

Indexed keywords

BARGAINING; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 4444266687     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(03)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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