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Economic historians Douglass C. North and Avner Greif use the tools on the New Institutional Economics and Game Theory and draw the attention of economists to the fact that both markets and governments are institutional constructs created by ...
Karol Fijałkowski
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Power and the Analysis of the Food System [PDF]
This paper stresses that in order to understand the current restructuring processes in the food system it is necessary to take explicitly into account the role of power as a driving organizational force. Agricultural economics, drawing pervasively on the
Valeria Sodano
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ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar+2 more
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Economic institutions play an indispensable role in creating an impetus for economic development. Although the concepts of institutions and economic institutions are not new in Vietnam, their connotation and nature remain controversial. This paper aims to clarity the connotation and the nature of institutions and economic institutions, thereby ...
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Institutional Economics at the Micro Level? What Transaction Costs Theory Could Listen From Original Institutionalism (In the Spirit of Building Bridges) [PDF]
Inertia in academia sometimes obstructs the development of important insights. That is one reason for the specially long gap separating Coase's seminal paper [1937] that laid the foundations of current Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the efforts of ...
Huascar Pessali, Ramon Fernandez
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State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations [PDF]
This chapter examines the implications of the new institutional economics (NIE) for analysing state failure in developing countries. The NIE approach aims to identify the institutional causes of state failure. In their chapters Bates and Toye have argued
Khan, Mushtaq
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ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner+3 more
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Direito e institucionalismo econômico: apontamentos sobre uma fértil agenda de pesquisa
RESUMO O artigo explora a dimensão jurídica nos trabalhos de autores pertencentes a diferentes correntes institucionalistas. Argumenta que análises centradas nas instituições - em especial uma delas, a chamada economia política institucionalista ...
Diogo R. Coutinho
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Why transaction costs are so relevant in political governance? a new institutional survey
The New Institutional Economics, led by four Nobel laureates (Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom), has showed that institutions and organizations are a medium for reducing transaction costs and obtaining a higher efficiency
GONZALO CABALLERO, DAVID SOTO-OÑATE
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The Effects of E-commerce on the Structure of Intermediation [PDF]
The paper questions the notion that the diffusion of electronic commerce will lead to disintermediation. Rather than interpreting intermediation as a single service it is pointed out that intermediaries can provide a number of services.
Stefan W. Schmitz
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