Handbook of new institutional economics / edited by Claude Menard and Mary M. Shirley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Institutions and the performance of economies over time -- 2. The institutional structure of production -- 3. Transaction cost economics -- 4. Electoral institutions and political competition : coordination, persuasion and mobilization -- 5. Presidential versus parliamentary government -- 6. Legislative process and the mirroring principle -- 7. The performance and stability of federalism : an institutional perspective -- 8. The many legal institutions that support contractual commitments -- 9. Legal systems as frameworks for market exchanges -- 10. Market institutions and judicial rulemaking -- 11. Legal institutions and financial development -- 12. A new institutional approach to organization -- 13. Vertical integration -- 14. Solutions to principal-agent problems in firms -- 15. The institutions of corporate governance -- 16. Firms and the creation of new markets -- 17. The make-or-buy decisions : lessons from empirical studies -- 18. Agricultural contracts -- 19. The enforcement of contracts and private ordering -- 20. The institutions of regulation : an application to public utilities -- 21. State regulation of open-access, common-pool resources -- 22. Property rights and the state -- 23. Licit and illicit responses to regulation -- 24. Institutions and development -- 25. Institutional and non-institutional explanations of economic differences -- 26. Institutions and firms in transition economies -- 27. Social capital, social norms and the new institutional economics -- 28. Commitment, coercion and markets : the nature and dynamics of institutions supporting exchange -- 29. Economic sociology and new institutional economics -- 30. Doing institutional analysis : digging deeper than markets and hierarchies.

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