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Lower Bounds on Path Length - $O$-contracts

In this section we consider the issue of contract path length when the structural restriction requires individual deals to be $O$-contracts. We first give an overview of the construction method, with the following subsections analysing the cases of unrestricted utility functions and, subsequently, monotone utility functions.

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Paul Dunne 2004-11-26