Transaction cost economics: An assessment of empirical research in the social sciences

Business and Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  MacHer, Jeffrey T ^a   Richman, Barak D ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical social sciences; Institutional economics; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849144673     PISSN: 13695258     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1210     Document Type: Article

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