Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics

Edited by Claude Ménard, Professor of Economics, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, Université de Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France and Mary M. Shirley, President, The Ronald Coase Institute, US

'This book is about the variety of institutions that govern economic life. It has stunning breadth: political institutions, regulatory institutions, the law and practice of contracts, property rights and more are discussed with intelligence and rigor. Whether your interest is in the history of institutions or current practice, whether in rich countries or poor, you will learn much from this book.'--Sam Peltzman, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, US'This volume brings 30 chapters on a variety of topics, usefully examined from a transaction cost framework. As Coase argued, transaction costs move economic outcomes from the idealized simple to the more complex.'--Gary Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara, National Bureau of Economic Research and Hoover Institution, Stanford University, US

• Contents:IntroductionClaude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley Part I Government Institutions1. Collective Action and Government: Still a MysteryPhilip Keefer 2. What’s Next for the Study of Non-democracy? Scott Gehlbach 3. The Power and Limits of Federalism Emilia Simison and Daniel Ziblatt 4. Evaluating the Performance of Regulations and Regulatory Institutions, Joseph E. Aldy 5. Public Goods Provision in Developing Countries: A Research Agenda for New Institutional EconomicsKatrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues Part II Contracts and Organizations6. A Mutually Beneficial Relationship: Relational Contracts in Developing Countries Rocco Macchiavello 7. Contracting in Innovative IndustriesRicard Gil and Giorgio Zanarone 8. Interrelated technical and institutional coordination: The case of network infrastructures Rolf Künneke 9. Cognition and Governance: A Research Agenda for the New Institutional EconomicsKyle J. Mayer 10. Tools and Approaches in Public Contracting ResearchMarian W. Moszoro 11. Transaction and Transactors’ Choices: What We Have Learned and What We Need To ExploreMassimiliano VatieroPart III Laws and Property Rights12. Questions of Property Rights Dominic Parker 13. (Real) Behavior meets (Real) Institutions: Towards a research agenda on the Study of the Commons Juan Camilo Cardenas 14. Property Rights and Economic Development: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead, Carmine Guerriero 15. The China Experience: An Institutional Approach Cheryl Long Part IV Norms, Culture, and Beliefs16. Internal Institutions: The Major Unknowns in Institutional EconomicsStefan Voigt 17. The Coevolution of Institutions and Culture Bernardo Mueller 18. Modelling the Institutional Matrix: Norms, Culture, and Robust DesignJenna Bednar 19.Corruption and the New Institutional Economics Miriam A. Golden 20.Religion and Institutions Sriya Iyer Part V Institutions in a rapidly changing world21. Family and Gender: Questions for the NIE Raquel Fernández 22. Research Frontiers in the Institutional Analysis of WorkJohn S. Ahlquist 23. Challenges of Agricultural Organization to Growth and ClimatePaul Castañeda Dower 24. Is Blockchain Hype, Revolutionary, or Both? What We Need to Know. Sarah Oh and Scott Wallsten 25. New Media, New Issues Francisco Sobbrio Part VI New Approaches and New Tools26. Neo-Institutionalism in Ancient Economic History: The Road AheadTaco Terpstra 27. Measuring Institutions: What We Do Not Know Jan Teorell 28. Data Science for Institutional and Organizational Economics Jens Prüfer and Patricia Prüfer 29. How Do Experiments Inform Collective Action Research? Maroš Servátka 30. Recognizing and Solving Institutional PuzzlesDouglas W. Allen Index