This article examines the challenges posed by system specialization, as illustrated by the difficulties of coordinating the roles of the mental health and law enforcement agencies working with people with severe mental illness. Dealing with the needs of clients in one system when they are most appropriately served by the other may make both law enforcement and mental health systems appear ineff...

Producer Protection Legislation and Termination Damages in the Presence of Contracting Frictions This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD would ...

Contemporary jurisdictions of continental Europe are familiar with the legal concepts of a contract in favour of a third-party beneficiary who is not present when the contract is entered into as well as the right of this third party to enforce such a contract. However, these concepts are not easily compatible with the principles of Roman private law. The Swiss Legislation on Obligations (Schwei...

Policy shocks affect the rent distribution in long-term contracts, which can lead to such contracts being renegotiated. We seek an understanding of what aspects of contract design, in the face of a substantial policy shock, affect the propensity to renegotiate. We test our hypotheses using data on U.S. coal contracts after the policy shock of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Contracts are div...

We study incentives for information sharing among agricultural intermediaries in imperfectly competitive markets for farm output. Information sharing always increases expected grower and total surplus, but may reduce expected intermediary profits. Even when expected profits increase with information sharing, intermediary firms face a Prisoner’s Dilemma where it is privately rational to withhold...

The successful implementation of the activities higher educational institution, its prestige and quality depend to a significant extent on qualifications academic staff skills knowledge transfer. Freedom labor is main foundation. Therefore, subject our research in this article provision freedom work for staff. purpose study reveal challenges ensuring professors, associate assistant as well whol...

The automation of B2B processes is currently a hot research topic. In particular, multi-agent systems have been used to address this arena, where agents can represent enterprises in an interaction environment, automating tasks such as contract negotiation and enactment. Contract monitoring tools are becoming more important as the level of automation of business relationships increase. When busi...

This article examines a number of contractual issues generated by the advent of intelligent agent applications. The aim of the study is to provide legal guidelines for developers of intelligent agent software by addressing the contractual difficulties associated with automated electronic transactions. The author investigates whether the requirements for a legally enforceable contract are satisf...