Can transaction cost economics explain voluntary chambers of commerce?

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 654-680

  Bennett, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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