Property as sequential exchange: The forgotten limits of private contract
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- Arruã‘Ada, Benito, 2017. "Property as sequential exchange: the forgotten limits of private contract," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(4), pages 753-783, December.
- Benito Arruñada, 2017. "Property as sequential exchange: The forgotten limits of private contract," Economics Working Papers 1547, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Property rights; Externalities; enforcement; transaction costs; public ordering; private ordering; impersonal exchange; organized markets; blockchain;JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- K11 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Property Law
- K12 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Contract Law
- L85 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Real Estate Services
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- P48 - Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CTA-2017-01-22 (Contract Theory & Applications)
- NEP-LAW-2017-01-22 (Law & Economics)
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