Losing under contract: Transaction-cost externalities and spot market disintegration

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Roberts, Michael J ^a   Key, Nigel ^a  

^a Economic Research Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracting; Externalities; Transaction costs; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444402889     PISSN: 15420485     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1094     Document Type: Article

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