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Faculty Privilege : Tenure and Faculty Authority in American Higher Education in the 20th Century

Masten, Scott E. - 2023

Faculty at American colleges and universities possess an exceptional, arguably unique, combination of job security and decision authority. In addition to the protections of academic tenure, “regular” faculty at most higher education institutions exercise significant authority over important...

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Adaptation, adjudication, and private ordering : contractual relations through the Williamson Lens

Masten, Scott E. - In: Journal of institutional economics 18 (2022) 2, pp. 283-296

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Contracting in the Absence of Specific Investments and Moral Hazard : Understanding Carrier-Driver Relations in U.S. Trucking

Lafontaine, Francine; Masten, Scott E. - 2021

This paper considers functions of contracting other than the protection of relationship-specific investments and the provision of marginal incentives, and applies the theory to explain variation in the form of compensation of over-the-road truck drivers in the U.S. Specifically, we argue that...

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Joint Submission of Antitrust Economists, Legal Scholars, and Practitioners to the House Judiciary Committee on the State of Antitrust Law and Implications for Protecting Competition in Digital Markets

Barnett, Jonathan - 2020

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Oliver E. Williamson : A Personal Appreciation

Masten, Scott E. - 2020

By virtually any measure, Oliver Williamson has been one of the most influential scholars in the economic organization and institutions. He is widely credited (including by Ronald Coase himself) with rescuing transaction cost economics from its tautological origins by showing how the advantages...

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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions : Communities and Courts

Masten, Scott E.; Prüfer, Jens - 2016

We analyze the capacities of communities (or social networks) and courts to secure cooperation among heterogeneous, impersonal transactors. We find that communities and courts are complementary in that they tend to support cooperation for different types of transactions but that the existence of...

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On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions : Communities and Courts

Masten, Scott E.; Prüfer, Jens - 2014

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Post-Sale Service and the Limits of Reputation

Masten, Scott E. - 2013

In the standard durable-goods-quality model (e.g., Klein and Leffler, 1981; Shapiro, 1982, 1983), the prospect of repeat sales is often adequate to support the provision of high-quality durable goods even when quality is not observable at the time of purchase. We show that when durable goods require...

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On the evolution of collective enforcement institutions : communities and courts

Masten, Scott E.; Prüfer, Jens - 2012 - Current version, June 19, 2012

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Transaction cost economics : an Edward Elgar research review

Williamson, Oliver E. - 2016

', American Economic Review, 99 (1), March, 5-24 -- Masten, Scott E. and Jens Prufer (2014), 'On the Evolution of Collective … Economics, XXX (2), October, 369-98 -- Masten, Scott E. (1988), 'Equity, Opportunism, and the Design of Contractual Relations … Economics for Public Utility Regulation', Journal of Regulatory Economics, 9 (1), January, 5-39 -- Masten, Scott E. (1996), Case …

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