Governance structures; market and firms

6 important questions on Governance structures; market and firms

What are the two markets in the neoclassical approach to markets and what are their characteristics?

  1. Spot markets. These are markets with anonymous traders, homogeneous products / commodities, one-off exchange and theoretically: institutions do not matter.
  2. Contingent markets. Time, place, contingencies matter.

What is the industrial organization approach to markets? Name three characteristics.

  1. Markets and market power
  2. Market power can be exploited by using: price discrimination, exclusive contracting and predatory pricing.
  3. Anti-competitive behaviour: particularly in situations of a dominant firm, usually in combination with entry barriers.

What is the transaction cost approach to markets? Name 7.

  1. MARKET = BUY
  2. Also called: spot market
  3. anonymous actors
  4. one-off
  5. main coordination device: price
  6. information exchange: low
  7. Examples: stock exchange, flower auction.
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What is the transaction costs approach to firms? Name 6.

  1. FIRM = MAKE
  2. Firm = hierarchy = vertical intergration
  3. actors not anonymous
  4. repetitive transactions
  5. main coordination devices: authority
  6. information exchange: high

What are the three different types of auctions?

  1. Sealed bid auction
  2. Dutch auction
  3. English auction

What are 7 things that market-supporting institutions ensure?

  1. Contracts are enforced
  2. Property rights are respected
  3. Opportunistic behaviour is diminished
  4. Adverse effects of externalities are reduced
  5. Information flows improve
  6. Transaction costs are reduced
  7. Tools for risk management are provided.

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