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Transaction costs.
wThe “costs of using the price system” came to be called transaction costs.
wEx ante transaction costs.
nThe costs of finding trading partners, negotiating, coordinating.
wEx post transaction costs.
nThe costs of opportunism after the deal is made.
l“Self-interest seeking with guile.”
nAsset specificity versus moral hazard.
Ronald H. Coase (1910-)
Oliver E. Williamson (1932-)