The DMA—Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

European Studies: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Commemorating the 20 birthday of the annus mirabilis in Europe allows for and even triggers broadish overviews of what has been achieved. This is already a period worth analyzing even in terms of history, long enough for drawing some preliminary conclusions. In the following pages we try to assess, with the benefit of hindsight, the intellectual plane of what is increasingly called as Europeani...

The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead (September 2000)

I OPEN MY DISCUSSION of the new institutional economics with a confession, an assertion, and a recommendation. The confession is that we are still very ignorant about institutions. The assertion is that the past quarter century has witnessed enormous progress in the study of institutions. The recommendation is that, awaiting a unified theory, we should be accepting of pluralism. Chief among the...

A successful first year: taking stock and looking ahead

The biij will shortly be completing its first year of publication. This calls for a celebration for very many reasons. There have been mistakes made, lessons learned, triumphs and achievements…all in these 12 months. With this issue, we decided it was time to pause a little and take stock of our progress during the past year. We firmly believe that knowledge should not be the monopoly of a few ...

On The Future of Co-operatives: Talking Stock, Looking Ahead

Two extensions are formulated of the analysis of the allocation of decision rights in Hendrikse and Veerman (2001). First, the incomplete contracts in their article can be viewed as simple long-term contracts, i.e. it is not allowed to make the allocation of authority contingent on the circumstances. Contingent long-term contracts are now considered. Second, another aspect of decision rights is...

Regulating Search Engines: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead