Torts: Inducing Breach of Contract

Working Paper Department of Economics Breach of Contract, I

Boundaries of Extracompensatory Relief for Abusive Breach of Contract, The

Modeling breach of contract risk through bundled options

In this paper, in order to model breach of contract risk, we design and value a bundled option that is composed of contract abandonment and price renegotiation. We show numerically that the bundled option is more valuable for the contract than either of the options, ie, contract abandonment and price renegotiation, in isolation. This value increases monotonically as the spot price becomes more ...

Specific Performance versus Damages for Breach of Contract

When would parties to a contract want performance to be specifically required, and when would they prefer payment of money damages to be the remedy for breach? This fundamental question is studied here, and an answer is provided that is based on a simple distinction between contracts to produce goods and contracts to convey property. Setting aside qualifications, the conclusion for breach of co...

Contractual Performance, Corrective Justice, and Disgorgement for Breach of Contract

This paper is about the remedy of disgorgement for breach of contract. In it I argue for two conclusions. I first argue that, prima facie at least, disgorgement damages for breach of contract present something of a puzzle. But second, I argue that if we pay close attention to the notion of contractual performance, this puzzle can be resolved in a way that is consistent with principles of correc...