Contractual Tradeoffs and SMEs Choice of Organizational Form, A View from U.S. and French History, 1830-2000
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JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D86 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Economics of Contract Law
- K2 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law
- K22 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Business and Securities Law
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
- N8 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2006-08-26 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAW-2006-08-26 (Law and Economics)
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