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Juliet P. Kostritsky
Researcher at Case Western Reserve University
Publications - 23
Citations - 73
Juliet P. Kostritsky is an academic researcher from Case Western Reserve University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Opportunism & Default rule. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 22 publications receiving 70 citations.
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The Law and Economics of Norms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the importance of norms in the law and economics of exchange and examine how private parties bring order despite the absence of a coercive state and the idea of a norm as the result of an exchange that originates in the brain to accommodate all competing costs.
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Illegal Contacts and Efficient Deterrence: A Study in Modern Contract Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, a unified theory for why courts should not apply the no-effect rule of illegal contracts uniformly and why they should vary the type of relief according to the factual setting.
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Plain Meaning vs. Broad Interpretation: How the Risk of Opportunism Defeats a Unitary Default Rule for Interpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that it is wrong to assume that courts must make a dichotomous choice always to prefer extrinsic evidence or always to exclude it, and they identify a number of factors that may help to resolve which methodology will achieve those goals in different factual settings.
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Bargaining with Uncertainty, Moral Hazard and Sunk Costs: A Default Rule for Precontractual Negotiations
TL;DR: In this article, a model of bargaining behavior based on transaction cost economics, relational theories of contract,23 Williamsonian models of contracting behavior, and other economic insights is used to argue that achieving the optimal solution for the complexities of bargaining relationships demands the adoption of a new legal default rule.
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The Law and Economics of Norms
TL;DR: The evolution of norms in economics and law can be traced back to the early 20th century, when the first formalization of the concept of self-enforcing norms was proposed as discussed by the authors.