Williamson, Oliver. E (born 1932)

Scott Masten

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Abstract: Oliver E. Williamson is the 2009 co-recipient (with Elinor Ostrom) of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded ‘for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm’.

Keywords: adaptation; antitrust; asset specificity; barriers to entry; bounded rationality; contract law; corporate finance; corporate governance; credible commitments; firm boundaries; forbearance law; franchise contracting; fundamental transformation; governance; incomplete contracting; institutions; managerial discretion; organisation; opportunism; predatory pricing; regulation; remediableness; selective intervention; transaction cost economics; vertical integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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