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Oliver Hart

Papers on the Web and Recently Published Papers

Hold-up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points, revised August 2008, forthcoming in Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Debt Enforcement Around the World, with Simeon Djankov, Caralee McLiesh, and Andrei Shleifer, revised August 2008.

Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm, Economica, August 2008.

Contracts as Reference Points - Experimental Evidence, with Ernst Fehr and Christian Zehnder, April 2008. 

Contracts as Reference Points, with John Moore, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2008.

Incomplete Contracts and Ownership: Some New Thoughts, with John Moore, American Economic Review, May 2007.

On the Design of Hierarchies: Coordination Versus Specialization, with John Moore, Journal of Political Economy, August 2005.

Incomplete Contracts and Public Ownership: Remarks, and an Application to Public-Private Partnerships, Economic Journal, March 2003.

Financial Contracting, Journal of Economic Literature, December 2001.

Takeover Bids vs. Proxy Fights in Contests for Corporate Control with Lucian Bebchuck, October 2001.

Norms and the Theory of the Firm, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, June 2001.

Different Approaches to Bankruptcy, in Governance, Equity and Global Markets, Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Europe, June 21-23, 1999 (Paris: La Documentation Francaise, 2000).

­Cooperatives vs. Outside Ownership, with John Moore, February 1998.