new institutional economics

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New institutional economics is a school of economic thought that extends neoclassical economics by emphasizing the role of institutions, transaction costs, and property rights in shaping economic behavior and outcomes.

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instanceOf branch of economics
institutional economics
school of economic thought
analyzes contracts
economic history through institutions
firms as governance structures
markets as institutions
organizational forms
regulation
states as institutions
appliedIn development economics
economic history
industrial organization
organizational economics
political economy
associatedWith Armen A. Alchian NERFINISHED
Claude Ménard NERFINISHED
Douglass C. North NERFINISHED
Elinor Ostrom NERFINISHED
Harold Demsetz NERFINISHED
Oliver E. Williamson NERFINISHED
Ronald Coase NERFINISHED
Yoram Barzel NERFINISHED
buildsOn Coase theorem NERFINISHED
agency theory
game theory
law and economics
property rights theory
public choice theory
transaction cost economics
contrastsWith old institutional economics
distinguishes formal institutions
informal institutions
emerged 1960s
emphasizes institutions
property rights
transaction costs
extends neoclassical economics
focusesOn comparative institutional analysis
contract enforcement
governance structures
incomplete contracts
information asymmetries
principal–agent problems
role of institutions in economic performance
transaction cost minimization
gainedProminence 1970s
influenced governance of the firm literature
policy debates on institutions and growth
theories of economic development
views institutions as rules of the game

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Ronald Coase influenced new institutional economics