On Modes of Economic Governance

39 Pages Posted: 13 Nov 2001

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Avinash Dixit

Princeton University - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Date Written: October 2001

Abstract

I consider transactions involving asymmetric prisoners' dilemmas between pairs of players selected from two large populations. Games are played repeatedly, but information about cheating is not adequate to sustain cooperation, and there is no official legal system of contract enforcement. I examine how profit-maximizing private intermediation can supply the information and enforcement. I obtain conditions under which private governance can improve upon no governance, and examine why it fails to achieve social optimality.

JEL Classification: H10, K12

Suggested Citation

Dixit, Avinash K., On Modes of Economic Governance (October 2001). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=287851 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.287851

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