Improving environmental decisions: A transaction-costs story

The Political Transaction Costs and Uncertainties of Establishing Environmental Rights

Full - information transaction costs ∗

In a world with private information and learning on the part of the market participants, the (positive) difference between the observed transaction price of an asset and the corresponding unobserved full-information price (the price that reflects private and public information about the asset) represents an ideal measure of market quality. We call this difference “full-information transaction c...

Shrouded Transaction Costs∗

The proliferation of new payment methods on the Internet rekindles the old and unsettled debate about merchants’ incentive and ability to differentiate price according to payment choice. This paper develops an imperfect-information framework for the analysis of platform and social regulation of card surcharging and cash discounting. It makes three main contributions. First, it identifies the co...

Networks and Transaction Costs

Based on the well-known fact that social networks can provide effective mechanisms that help to increase the trust level between two trade partners, we apply a simple game-theoretical framework to derive transaction costs as a high risk of opportunistic behavior in a repeated trade relation determined by the density and size of trading networks. In the empirical part of the paper we apply a two...

Market Failures, Consumer Preferences, and Transaction Costs in Energy Efficiency Purchase Decisions

Several factors limit the energy savings potential and increase the costs of energyefficient technologies to consumers. These factors may usefully be placed into two categories; one category is what economists would define as market failures and the other is related to consumer preferences. This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding the roles of these factors, and develops a m...