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Contract theory in economics began with 1991 Nobel Laureate Ronald H. Coase's 1937 article "The Nature of the Firm". Coase notes that "the longer the duration of a contract regarding the supply of goods or services due to the difficulty of forecasting, then the less likely and less appropriate it is for the buyer to specify what the other party should do."
According to the PMBOK (7th edition) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Fixed Price Economic Price Adjustment Contract (FPEPA) is a "fixed-price contract, but with a special provision allowing for predefined final adjustments to the contract price due to changed conditions, such as inflation changes, or cost increases (or decrease) for special commodities".
Contract theory is a large body of legal theory that addresses normative and conceptual questions in contract law. One of the most important questions asked in contract theory is why contracts are enforced. One prominent answer to this question focuses on the economic benefits of enforcing bargains.
Implicit contracts theory was first developed to explain why there are quantity adjustments ... [14] or economic sanctions if the borrower is a country. [15] ...
Freedom of contract is the principle according to which individuals and groups may form contracts without government restrictions.This is opposed to government regulations such as minimum-wage laws, competition laws, economic sanctions, restrictions on price fixing, or restrictions on contracting with undocumented workers.
The BDI says Germany has once again become one of the EU's economic laggards amid a six-year decline in country's industry. ... (BDI) forecasts the German economy to contract by 0.1% in 2025. That ...
The Taylor contract came as a response to results of new classical macroeconomics, in particular the policy-ineffectiveness proposition proposed in 1975 by Thomas J. Sargent and Neil Wallace [3] based upon the theory of rational expectations, which posits that monetary policy cannot systematically manage the levels of output and employment in the economy and that monetary shocks can only give ...
The combination of rising life expectancy, fast-paced urbanization and a job market stripped from most of its traditional characteristics by artificial intelligence, was going to put pressure on ...