This paper presents a new model which incorporates features of developing country agriculture that may be critical in shaping the welfare outcomes of alternative agricultural policies. The model features heterogeneous households linked through markets in a rural economy-wide structure, with...

An essential element of any realistic investment portfolio selection is the consideration of transaction costs. Our purpose, in this paper, is to determine the maximum return and the corresponding number of securities to buy giving such return, whenever practical constraints features related to...

Local volatility models are popular because they can be simply calibrated to the market of European options. We extend the results of [4], [3] for such models, i.e. we propose a modi ed Leland method which allows us to approximately replicate a European contingent claim when the market is under...

This study aims to give the general frame of scientific research on transaction costs and economic performance, in fact the institutional economics field. It is going to emphasize the necessity of rethinking the neoclassical theory through the institutional approach within development economics....

The study illustrates the fundamental theoretical research on the issue of transaction costs, as reflected in the institutional analysis entitled „Transaction Costs Economics”. In order to obtain the empirical operationalization of transaction costs and, so, the valuation of their...

This paper analyses the concept of organizational forms, and derives some implications for the economics of production organization. To this end, after pointing out the role of knowledge in the organization of production, we discuss the theories based on technology (new institutional economics)...