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Research Article

Ambiguity and contractual incompleteness

Zile Wanga Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Meichen Chenb Department of Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Xiangdong Qina Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Yufeng Shic Department of Economics, Boston College, Boston, MA, USA
Pages 1422-1427 | Published online: 28 Mar 2022

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