The 9th Annual Workshop on Relational Contracts Conference was hosted by the Becker-Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, on September 8th and 9th, 2023. The Workshop combined theoretical, empirical, and real-world perspectives from several disciplines. In addition to papers from economists, were featured comments from lawyers working on relational contracts and contractual governance.
NES Professor Marta Troya Martinez co-organized the Workshop and moderated the session “Theory of the Firm”, where Brian Silverman (Toronto) was the main speaker. NES Professor Sultan Mehmood gave a talk about the contract enforcement in a stateless economy. Experts from University of Chicago, MIT, Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Hong Kong, Peking University and several others leading universities also spoke at the Workshop.
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The Workshop on Relational Contracts has been held annually since 2015. One objective of Workshop is to identify interesting yet underappreciated real-world features of relational contracts that will enrich scholars’ understanding of this phenomenon and provide novel insights for theoretical modeling. A second objective is to encourage scholars of relational contracts in different areas and disciplines to collaborate.