TY - BOOK AU - Ménard,Claude AU - Shirley,Mary M. TI - Handbook of new institutional economics SN - 1402026870 U1 - 330 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Dordrecht, [Great Britain] PB - Springer KW - Economic development KW - Institutional economics N1 - 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 ER -