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The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences
- H. Demsetz, K. Lehn
- Business
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 December 1985
This paper argues that the structure of corporate ownership varies systematically in ways that are consistent with value maximization. Among the variables that are empirically significant in… Expand
Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization
- A. Alchian, H. Demsetz
- Economics, Business
- IEEE Engineering Management Review
- 1 June 1975
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The Structure of Ownership and the Theory of the Firm
- H. Demsetz
- Economics
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 June 1983
Provides a model that explains forms of business organizations in terms of ownership structure, on-the-job consumption preferences, and monitoring costs. The thesis of Berle and Means that the… Expand
Toward a Theory of Property Rights
- H. Demsetz
- Economics, Political Science
- 1967
When a transaction is concluded in the marketplace, two bundles of property rights are exchanged. A bundle of rights often attaches to a physical commodity or service, but it is the value of the… Expand
Ownership Structure and Corporate Performance
- H. Demsetz, B. Villalonga
- 2001
This paper investigates the relation between the ownership structure and the performance of corporations if ownership is made multi-dimensional and also is treated as an endogenous variable. To our… Expand
Industry Structure, Market Rivalry, and Public Policy
- H. Demsetz
- Economics
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 April 1973
UANTITATIVE work in industrial organization has been directed mainly to the task of searching for monopoly even though a vast number of other interesting topics have been available to the student of… Expand
The Cost of Transacting
- H. Demsetz
- Economics
- 1 February 1968
Introduction, 33. — The definition and measurement of transaction cost on the New York stock exchange, 35. — The determination of the ask-bid spread, 40. — The determination of the transaction rate,… Expand
The Theory of the Firm Revisited
- H. Demsetz
- Economics
- 1 March 1988
From the birth of modern economics in 1776 to 1970, a span of almost 200 years, only two works seem to have been written about the theory of the firm that have altered the perspectives of the… Expand
Why Regulate Utilities
- H. Demsetz
- Economics
- 1 April 1968
Current economic doctrine offers to its students a basic relationship between the number of firms that produce for a given market and the degree to which competitive results will prevail. Stated… Expand
The Property Right Paradigm
- A. Alchian, H. Demsetz
- Business
- 1 March 1973
Economics textbooks invariably describe the important economic choices that all societies must make by the following three questions: What goods are to be produced? How are these goods to be… Expand