The analysis and measurement of production and transaction costs is an important tool in guiding decisions and in comprehendingthe behavior of the agents in a particular institutional environment. Although production costs have been widely studied in theliterature, transaction costs have not...

The aim of this paper was to analyze the characteristics of the transactions between economic agents to identify their attributes and to determine their impacts on the governance structure of the forest biomass energy production chain in Lages, Santa Catarina state. The Economic Transaction Cost...

Transactions among agribusiness agents are not exclusivelycarried out on the market, being also governed by alternative types ofinstitutional arrangements, some of which determined upon contractualagreement. In the fertilizers sector, the companies intensified the offerof input packages to...