The notion of complementarity between banks and microfinance has often been referred to in debates about the links between both sectors in the Developing Countries. But at the moment the research aiming at giving this complementarity a theoretical basis is quite scarce. In this paper, we will...

This paper aims to investigate the determinants of transaction costs on the technological markets. It shows that product monitoring is related to the nature of the licensed resources and to the characteristics of the institutional environment. We then test our theoretical framework on a database...

The paper surveys in a critical manner the recent development in firms theories. It is organized around two directions. The first one analyses the contributions recently proposed around the vision of the firm envisaged as a ?nexus of contracts?, focusing on the different recent variants of the...