New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook – Éric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant – 1st Edition

Part I Foundations
1 The Theories of the Firm
2 Contracts: From Bilateral Sets of Incentives to the Multi-Level Governance of Relations
3 Institutions and the Institutional Environment
4 Human Nature and Institutional Analysis
Part II Methodology
5 The "Case" for Case Studies in New Institutional Economics
6 New Institutional Econometrics: The Case of Research on Contracting and Organization
7 Experimental Methodology to Inform New Institutional Economics Issues
8 Game Theory and Institutions
9 New Institutional Economics, Organization, and Strategy
10 Inter-Firm Alliances: A New Institutional Economics Approach
11 Governance Structure and Contractual Design in Retail Chains
Part IV Industrial Organization

12 Make-or-Buy Decisions: A New Institutional Economics Approach
13 Transaction Costs, Property Rights, and the Tools of the New Institutional Economics: Water Rights and Water Markets
14 Contracting and Organization in Food and Agriculture
15 Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups' Participation in Policy Making: A Selective Survey
16 Regulation and Deregulation in Network Industry
17 Constitutional Political Economy: Analyzing Formal Institutions at the Most Elementary Level
18 New Institutional Economics and Its Application on Transition and Developing Economies

Part VI Challenges to Institutional Analysis
19 Law and Economics in Retrospect
20 The Theory of the Firm and Its Critics: A Stocktaking and Assessment
21 The Causes of Institutional Inefficiency: A Development Perspective
Notes
References
Index