Parties bound by an incomplete contract have an incentive to renegotiate after acquiring new information. The issue of the parties' investment in the relationship before renegotiation is analyzed in a simple two-period procurement model. The firm invests in the first period. It then learns its production cost and the sponsor learns its value for the project. Williamson' s underinvestment presum...

Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 Hans Morten Lossius, Eldar Søreide and Kjetil G Ringdal Publication of this supplement was supported by Akuttjournalen Arena AS Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available <a href="htt...

Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 Hans Morten Lossius, Eldar Søreide and Kjetil G Ringdal Publication of this supplement was supported by Akuttjournalen Arena AS Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available <a href="htt...

Many decisions in private and public organizations are made by groups. The paper explores strategies that the sponsor of a proposal may employ to convince a qualified majority of group members to approve the proposal. Adopting a mechanism design approach to communication, it emphasizes the need to distill information selectively to key members of the group and to engineer persuasion cascades in...

The purpose of this study was to examine sponsorship effectiveness at the Division I level, including the relationship between fans and sponsors. To collect the necessary data, the 13-item questionnaire was disseminated at two college football games by volunteer sampling at three Division I universities in the United States. With a total of 407 respondents, LISREL 8.52 and SPSS 17.0 were used t...

Given a fixed multigraph H with V(H) = {h1, . . . ,hm}, we say that a graph G is H-linked if for every choice of m vertices v1, . . . , vm in G, there exists a subdivision of H in G such that for every i, vi is the branch vertex representing hi . This generalizes the notion of k-linked graphs (as well as some other notions). For a family H of graphs, a graph G is H-linked if G is H-linked for e...

Women's Health Surveillance Report Marie DesMeules, Donna Stewart, Arminée Kazanjian, Heather McLean, Jennifer Payne, Bilkis Vissandjée The Women's Health Surveillance Report was funded by Health Canada, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (Canadian Population Health Initiative) and the Canadian Institutes of Health...