Scott E. Masten

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy

701 Tappan Street

Ann Arbor, MI MI 48109

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Contractual Choice

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Contractual Choice

University of Michigan Law School, Working Paper No. 99-003
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Jan 1999
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Contractual Choice

Posted: 01 Jan 1999
Scott E. Masten
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Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, are Not Organized as Firms

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Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, are Not Organized as Firms

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jun 2000
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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higher education, organization, governance, democracy, authority

Authority and Commitment: Why Universities, Like Legislatures, are Not Organized as Firms

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall 2006, Ross School of Business Research Paper
Posted: 17 Aug 2006
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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higher education, organization, governance, democracy, authority

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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts

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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts

TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2011-017, U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 11-013
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2016
Scott E. Masten and Jens Prufer
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Tilburg University
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Institutions, Contract Enforcement, Communities, Courts, Social Networks, Law Merchant, Lex Mercatoria, Commercial Revolution

On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts

Ross School of Business Paper No. 1169, CentER Discussion Paper No. 2011-074
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2014
Scott E. Masten and Jens Prufer
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Tilburg University
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Institutions, Contract Enforcement, Communities, Courts, Social Networks, Law Merchant, Lex Mercatoria, Commercial Revolution

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Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets

University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-027
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2021
Jonathan Barnett, Michael R. Baye, James C. Cooper, Daniel A. Crane, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Richard Epstein, Deborah Garza, Thomas W. Hazlett, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Benjamin Klein, Jonathan Klick, Thomas A. Lambert, Abbott B. Lipsky, Geoffrey A. Manne, Scott E. Masten, Maureen Ohlhausen, James Rill, Jan Rybnicek, Vernon L. Smith, David Teece, Robert Willig, Joshua D. Wright and John M. Yun
USC Gould School of Law, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of Michigan Law School, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, New York University School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Clemson University, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Missouri - School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Baker Botts LLP, Independent, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Institute for Business Innovation, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Lodestar Law and Economics and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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antitrust, antitrust law, antitrust agencies, antitrust enforcement, consumer welfare, market power

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Public Utility Ownership in 19th-Century America: The 'Aberrant' Case of Water

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2010
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Public utilities, contracting

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Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions

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Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 31 Aug 2007
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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contracting, price determination, negotiation costs, self-enforcement

Long-Term Contracts and Short-Term Commitment: Price Determination for Heterogeneous Freight Transactions

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 11, Issue 1, pp. 79-111, 2009
Posted: 25 Aug 2009
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

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Post-Sale Service and the Limits of Reputation

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 May 2009 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2013
Scott E. Masten and Renata Kosova
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Imperial College London
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reputation, durable goods, post-sale service

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Oliver E. Williamson: A Personal Appreciation

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 18 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 27 May 2021
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Oliver Williamson; transaction cost economics

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Faculty Privilege: Research and the Rise of Tenure and Faculty Authority in American Higher Education

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 15 May 2023
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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tenure, faculty governance, higher education, hold up

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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard: Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

NBER Working Paper No. w8859
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Mar 2002 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Francine Lafontaine and Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Book Review: the Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: a History, by Massimiliano Vatiero

History of Economic Ideas, 29, September 2021, pp. 189-192.
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 11 Dec 2023
Scott E. Masten
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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transaction costs, history of economic thought