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Contract enforceability and economic institutions in early trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an economic institution which enabled traders to benefit from employing overseas agents despite the commitment problem inherent in these relations. And they use a simple game-theoretical model to examine the interaction between social and economic institutions, the determinants of business practices, and the nature of the merchants' law.
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Abstract: This paper presents an economic institution which enabled eleventh-century traders to benefit from employing overseas agents despite the commitment problem inherent in these relations. Agency relations were governed by a coalition--an economic institution in which expectations, implicit contractual relations, and a specific information-transmission mechanism supported the operation of a reputation mechanism. Historical records and a simple game-theoretical model are used to examine this institution. The study highlights the interaction between social and economic institutions, the determinants of business practices, the nature of the merchants' law, and the interrelations between market and nonmarket institutions. Copyright 1993 by American Economic Association.
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