Relational Contracts: Recent Empirical Advancements and Open Questions

Rocco Macchiavello, Ameet Morjaria*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Relational contracts – informal self-enforcing agreements sustained by repeated interactions – are ubiquitous both within and across organizational boundaries. This review highlights recent empirical contributions in selected areas. We begin by reviewing some recent work that explicitly takes the dynamic enforcement constraints that underpin relational contract theory to the data. We then discuss the relationship between relational contracting and firms’ performance. We conclude by pointing in directions that we consider to be particularly ripe for future work.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)673-700
Number of pages28
JournalJournal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
Volume179
Issue number3-4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Keywords

  • contract theory
  • organizations
  • relational contracts

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics and Econometrics

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