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Transaction Cost Economics


Steven Tadelis


University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Oliver E. Williamson


University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group
March 12, 2012


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The study of the governance of economic organization has become a lively and diverse field of research over the last four decades. This chapter describes the fundamental ideas of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) as these evolved in the 1970's to offer a methodology through which to analyze how the governance of economic organization has economizing consequences.

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Keywords: Transaction Cost Economics

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Date posted: March 13, 2012 ; Last revised: April 14, 2012

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Tadelis, Steven and Williamson, Oliver E., Transaction Cost Economics (March 12, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2020176 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2020176

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Steven Tadelis (Contact Author)
University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business ( email )
545 Student Services Building
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
Oliver E. Williamson
University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group ( email )
545 Student Services Building
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States
510-642-8697 (Phone)
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