New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook Book

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword Oliver E. Williamson; A Road Map for the Guidebook Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant; Introductory Chapter - New Institutional Economics: a Report Card Paul L. Joskow;

Part I. Foundations:

1. The Theories of the Firm PIERRE GARROUSTE and STEPHANE SAUSSIER;
2. Contracts: From Bilateral Sets of Incentives to the Multi-Level Governance of Relations ERIC BROUSSEAU;
3. Institutions and the Institutional Environment JOHN NYE;
4. Human nature and institutional analysis BENITO ARRUNADA;

Part II. Methodology:
5. The 'Case' for Case Studies in the New Institutional Economics LEE J. ALSTON;
6. New Institutional Econometrics: The Case of Research on Contracting and Organization MICHAEL E. SYKUTA;
7. Experimental methodology to inform New Institutional Economics Issues STEPHANE ROBIN and CARINE STAROPOLI;
8. Game Theory and Institutions THIERRY PENARD;

Part III. Strategy and Management:
9. New-Institutional Economics, Organization and Strategy JACKSON NICKERSON and LYDA BIGELOW;
10. Inter-firm Alliances: A New Institutional Economics Approach JOANNE E. OXLEY and BRIAN S. SILVERMAN;
11. Governance Structure and Contractual Design in Retail Chains EMMANUEL RAYNAUD;

Part IV. Industrial Organization:
12. Make or buy decisions: a NIE approach MANUEL GONZALEZ-Diaz and LUIS VAZQUEZ;
13. Transaction Costs, Property Rights, and the Tools of the New Institutional Economics: Water Rights and Water Markets GARY D. LIBECAP;
14. Contracting and Organization in Food and Agriculture MICHAEL L. COOK, PETER G. KLEIN andCONSTANTINE ILIOPOULOS;

Part V. Institutional Design:
15. Buy, lobby or sue: interest group participation in policy making - a selective survey PABLO T. SPILLER and SANNY LIAO;
16. Regulation and Deregulation in network industry JEAN-Michel GLACHANT and YANNICK PEREZ;
17. Constitutional Political Economy - Analyzing the most basic layer of formal institutions STEFAN VOIGT;
18. New Institutional Economics and its Application on Transition and Developing Economies SONJA OPPER;

Part VI. Challenges to Institutional Analysis:
19. Law and Economics in Retrospect ANTONIO NICITA and UGO PAGANO;
20. The Theory of the Firm and Its Critics: a Stocktaking and an Assessment NICOLAI J. FOSS and PETER G. KLEIN;
21. The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective JEAN- PHILIPPE PLATTEAU; References; Index.