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<strong>Transaction</strong> Cost Theory<br />

Neoclassical Economics: completely ignores transaction<br />

costs.<br />

Institutional Economics: Coase (1937) first <strong>in</strong>troduced the<br />

concept of transaction costs; article „The Nature of the Firm“.<br />

Accord<strong>in</strong>g to Cheung (1992) the transaction cost exists when<br />

there are transactions.<br />

Every exchange of the product entails costs that result from both<br />

parties attempt<strong>in</strong>g to determ<strong>in</strong>e the valued characteristics of the<br />

good (North 1997).

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