Deals that start when you sign them by Gibbons, Robert

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This essay explores six sentences from Oliver Williamson – five providing context and the sixth the central topic. …”
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The Economics of Maps by Nagaraj, Abhishek, Stern, Scott

“…We highlight five important economic and institutional factors shaping mapmakers’ data and design choices. Our essay ends by proposing that economists pay more attention to the endogeneity of mapmaking and the resulting consequences for economic and social welfare. …”
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"On a Level with Dentists?" Reflections on the Evolution of Industrial Organization by Schmalensee, Richard

“…This essay provides a brief overview of the evolution of the field of industrial organization from its emergence to the present, and it offers some observations about the present state of the field. …”
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From “Green Growth” to sound policies: An overview by Schmalensee, Richard

“…“Green growth” is an attractive slogan with a variety of possible meanings. This essay critically examines several potential meanings of this slogan and provides a brief overview of some of the main implications of the other papers in this special issue. …”
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Phenomena, theory, application, data, and methods all have impact by Hauser, John R

“…In his provocative essay on impactful research in this issue, my colleague and friend Gerry Tellis postulates that good papers are interesting and challenge common beliefs. …”
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Failure to Launch: Critical Mass in Platform Businesses by Evans, David S., Schmalensee, Richard

“…Two-sided platform businesses with low costs of reversing participation status have become more important with the rise of the Internet. This essay is concerned with new businesses of this sort and the initial critical mass hurdle that they generally seem to face. …”
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Transaction-Cost Economics: Past and Future by Gibbons, Robert S.

“…Oliver Williamson is the founder and chief developer of transaction-cost economics (TCE). In this brief essay, on the occasion of his Nobel Memorial Prize, I offer a partial discussion of Williamson's contributions by first summarizing some of the accomplishments of TCE-past and then sketching some of the opportunities for TCE-future. …”
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Jeffrey Rohlfs' 1974 Model of Facebook: An Introduction by Schmalensee, Richard

“…This short essay, forthcoming in Competition Policy International, summarizes and evaluates Jeffrey Rohlfs’ 1974 Bell Journal paper, “A Theory of Interdependent Demand for a Telecommunications Service.” …”
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National Institutes of Health Peer Review: Challenges and Avenues for Reform by Azoulay, Pierre, Graff Zivin, Joshua S., Manso, Gustavo

“…However, lean budgets and the rapidly changing ecosystem within which scientific inquiry takes place have led many to ask whether the peer-review practices inherited from the immediate postwar era are still well suited to 21st-century realities. In this essay, we examine two salient issues: (1) the aging of the scientist population supported by NIH and (2) the innovativeness of the research supported by the institutes. …”
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Guidepost: The Evolution of Research on Industry Platforms by Cusumano, Michael A.

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A Song for My Supper: More Tales of the Field by Van Maanen, John

“…This essay tries to be true to a podium talk I presented at a conference in March, 2008. …”
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