American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 87, No. 3 (Nov., 1981), pp. 548-577 (30 pages) The transaction cost approach to the study of economic organization regards the transaction as the basic unit of ...

Last week my friend and co-author Mike Munger published our conversation on his podcast, The Answer is Transaction Costs: Smart Grids, DERs, and the Economics of Energy. He and I are both deeply ...

Nagle, Frank, Robert Seamans, and Steve Tadelis. "Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda." Strategic Organization 23, no. 2 (May 2025): 351–365.

Background: For almost a decade, public and private organizations have pressured hospitals to improve their patient safety records. Since 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has no ...

The total cost of owning an exchange-traded fund can be roughly split into two parts: holding costs and transaction costs. Holding costs come with owning an ETF. Trading costs are paid as investors ...

There are differences between private returns or costs and the costs or returns to society as a whole Consumption, production, and investment decisions of individuals, households, and firms often ...