Evolution of Markets and Institutions: A Study of an Emerging EconomyThe new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been developed further by scholars such as Oliver Williamson, Douglas North and their followers, leading to the rich and growing field of the new institutional economics. This branch of economics stresses the importance of institutions in the functioning of free markets, which include elaborately defined and effectively enforced property rights in the presence of transaction costs, large corporate organizations with agency and hierarchical controls, formal contracts, bankruptcy laws, and regulatory institutions. In this timely volume, Murali Patibandla applies some of the precepts of the new institutional economics to India - one of the world's most promising economies. |
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... consumers and government agents, for example by increasing competition. The shifts change absolute and relative prices in an economy (between different sectors and economic actors), as well as the transaction costs of doing business in ...
... It also causes a reduction in the predatory powers of government agents with respect to producers, and an increase in the bargaining power of consumers and workers with respect to producers. The evolution of markets The conceptual ...
... consumers, workers, investors and governments – in the various decision games, after the initial changes in the rules of the game. In the following paragraphs, I discuss the definition of markets and economic institutions and trace the ...
... consumers depending on their willingness and ability to pay. The total market is served, and the last and poorest consumer pays a price equal to marginal cost. However, the monopolist takes away the consumer surplus. By the same logic ...
... consumers in the system. This, in turn, engenders forces for change in the institutional environment. An increase in the number of people in the market may lead them to make attempts at reducing uncertainty and transaction costs in the ...
Contents
Initial conditions and economic policy reforms | |
Figures | |
Percentage share of three major sectors in employment and | |
The direction of structural changes | |
Transaction costs of the Inspector Raj in May 2000 | |
RD expenditure by the large Indian companies | |
Organizational change | |
Sample of acquiring firms involved in the MAs process between 1995 | |
Annual average growth rate of vertical integration 19909 a sample of commodity and manufacturing industries | |
Some indicators of postreform India | |
The evolution of public and private order institutions | |
Institutions for effective tax administration | |
Conclusion | |
Performance of the Indian economy 19702001 | |
Comparative profile of financial intermediaries and markets in India | |
some selected indicators 19801 to 20001 | |
Foreign direct investment and trade in India | |
Growth rates and sectoral shares of the service industry | |
Competitive dynamics | |
motorcycle industry Bajaj Auto and Hero Honda | |
India | |
Technological change | |
Industrywise breakdown of foreign collaboration approvals in India | |
The industry list | |
Firmlevel data | |
Econometric explanation of market shares | |
Industries with decline in annual average growth rate in vertical | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |
integration 19909 | |
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