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Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 May 1997

George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Four Formal(Izable) Theories of the Firm?

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 28 Sep 2004

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Oct 1996

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

NBER Working Paper No. w5705

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2021

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, and Path Dependence

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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, and Path Dependence

Annual Review of Economics, Forthcoming, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4777-10

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, and Path Dependence

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2010

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Inside Organizations: Pricing, Politics, and Path Dependence

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 337-365, 2010

Posted: 18 Oct 2010

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Does Executive Compensation Affect Investment?

NBER Working Paper No. w4135

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2007 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jul 2003

Robert S. Gibbons and Michael Waldman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Enriching a Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics Inside Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w9849

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 Jul 2003 Last Revised: 31 May 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Michael Waldman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Firms in Markets Under Uncertainty

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4744-09

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2009

Robert S. Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael L. Powell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Incentives in Organizations

NBER Working Paper No. w6695

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2021

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Incentives in Organizations

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 4, Fall 1998

Posted: 22 Dec 1998

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Optimal Incentive Contracts in the Presence of Career Concerns: Theory and Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w3792

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 14 May 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Integration and Information: Markets and Hierarchies Revisited

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Integration and Information: Markets and Hierarchies Revisited

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4776-10

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 24 Mar 2010

Robert S. Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael L. Powell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Integration and Information: Markets and Hierarchies Revisited

NBER Working Paper No. w15779

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2021

Robert S. Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael L. Powell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Implicit Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

NBER Working Paper No. w6177

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 20 May 2021

George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Building an Equilibrium: Rules versus Principles in Relational Contracts

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Building an Equilibrium: Rules versus Principles in Relational Contracts

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021

Robert S. Gibbons, Manuel Grieder, Holger Herz and Christian Zehnder

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, UniDistance Suisse, University of Fribourg - Department of Economics and University of Lausanne

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Building an Equilibrium: Rules Versus Principles in Relational Contracts

CESifo Working Paper No. 7871

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 15 Jul 2020

Robert S. Gibbons, Manuel Grieder, Holger Herz and Christian Zehnder

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, UniDistance Suisse, University of Zurich and University of Lausanne

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Subjective Performance Measures in Optimal Incentive Contracts

NBER Working Paper No. w4480

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2021

George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Citation 65

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Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets

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Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4775-10

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Mar 2010

Robert S. Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael L. Powell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w15783

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021

Robert S. Gibbons, Richard Holden and Michael L. Powell

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, University of Chicago and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Relative Performance Evaluation for Chief Executive Officers

NBER Working Paper No. w2944

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Learning and Wage Dynamics

NBER Working Paper No. w3764

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2021

Henry S. Farber and Robert S. Gibbons

Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Relational Adaptation Under Reel Authority

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Research Paper No. 18-06, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS18-9, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 18-9

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2018

Daniel Barron, Robert S. Gibbons, Ricard Gil and Kevin J. Murphy

Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, Queen's University (Canada) - Smith School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Layoffs and Lemons

NBER Working Paper No. w2968

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Lawrence F. Katz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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What Situation Is This? Coarse Cognition and Behavior Over a Space of Games

Department of Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Working Paper No. 2017 / 09

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Sep 2017

Robert S. Gibbons, Marco LiCalzi and Massimo Warglien

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, Dept. Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia and University of Venice - Department of Business Economics & Management

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Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

Organization Science, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2012

Robert S. Gibbons and Rebecca M. Henderson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Harvard Business School

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Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralised Collective Bargaining

NBER Working Paper No. w4464

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2021

Richard B. Freeman and Robert S. Gibbons

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Does Unmeasured Ability Explain Inter-Industry Wage Differentials?

NBER Working Paper No. w3182

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Lawrence F. Katz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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Comparative Advantage, Learning, and Sectoral Wage Determination

NBER Working Paper No. w8889

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Apr 2002 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2021

Robert S. Gibbons, Lawrence F. Katz, Thomas Lemieux and Daniel Parent

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics and McGill University - Department of Economics

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Learning in Equilibrium Models of Arbitration

NBER Working Paper No. w2547

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2021

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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A Theory of Wage and Promotion Dynamics in Internal Labor Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w6454

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2021

Robert S. Gibbons and Michael Waldman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

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Contingent Social Utility in the Prisoners’ Dilemma

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 45, pp. 1-17, 2001

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Feb 2010

Robert S. Gibbons and Leaf Van Boven

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Colorado Boulder

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The Diversity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: an Application to Antipsychotics

NBER Working Paper No. w16823

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2012

Anna Levine Taub, Anton Kolotilin, Robert S. Gibbons and Ernst R. Berndt

Northeastern University, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Transaction-Cost Economics: Past, Present, and Future?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 112, Issue 2, pp. 263-288, June 2010

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Jun 2010

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

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Informal Authority in Organizations

Posted: 17 May 1999

George P. Baker, Robert S. Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Cheap Talk About Specific Investments

JOURNAL OF LAW, ECONOMICS, AND ORGANIZATIONS, Vol 11 No 2, Fall 1995

Posted: 25 Aug 1998

Joseph Farrell and Robert S. Gibbons

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

Robert S. Gibbons

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Organizational Economics

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