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This dissertation explores the ethics and norms associated with contracting in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt as a contribution to the institutional study of ancient contract and its relationship to the economic history of the Roman world. Although ancient contracts in the Hellenisti…

In a world of trade among nations using different currencies, accompanying each transaction of goods or services is a parallel currency transaction. The value of one nation's currency relative to another's changes every day in the absence of fixed exchange rates. Economic actors…

Qatar is among the fastest growing developing countries in all fields. Since the State of Qatar gained independence from the United Kingdom, the Qatari government has been focusing on the formation of state institutions to keep pace with global development. In 1971, Qatar releas…

General practice emerged as a distinct medical discipline in the nineteenth century. As independent contractors, General Practitioners (GPs) have however largely been 'untouched' by centrally derived policy. As a result, the profession has possessed wide discretion in relation t…

This research investigates the dynamic interplay of contractual and relational governance mechanisms in long-term supply arrangements. The thesis contributes to an emerging debate that examines the combination of contractual and relational governance in inter-organisational exch…

In the 1930s, male "moguls" ran the Hollywood studio system, exerting almost absolute control over all elements of film production, and a key to maintaining this dominance was the option contract, which enabled the studio to exploit a star's career for seven years. Nonetheless, …

This paper presents a utility maximization model to evaluate the impact of alternative oil fiscal regimes, which define the type of "contract" between a host government and a foreign oil company (FOC). Specifically, in order to determine the optimal fiscal regime, we use four fi…

The central feature characterizing Islamic economics is the absence of interest rates in performing financial transactions. Profit-sharing arrangements in which risk is shared between lenders and borrowers replace the traditional financing method. Concerns have been expressed th…

This dissertation is a collection of three papers: two of them are about group lending contracts and one (joint with Daniela Di Cagno) is about bankruptcy laws. Both papers on group lending contracts provide an economic explanation of the remarkable success of such contracts in …

There are three boilerplate provisions that have become standard in contracts (more so than others), namely the non-variation, non-cancellation and non-waiver clauses. These clauses have a long history of debate as to their validity and use which applications often interlink. Th…