WINIR Sessions on

Transaction Costs in the Digital Era

28-30 June 2018

WINIR sponsored two special sessions on “Transaction Costs in the Digital Era” at the 15th Annual Conference of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (Italian Association for the History of Political Economy), that was held at University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, on 28-30 June 2018.

Organizer: Massimiliano Vatiero (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland).

Thursday 28 June

Transaction Costs in the Digital Era I

Chair: Massimiliano Vatiero

Anne Lafarre (Tilburg University, Netherlands) & Christoph Van Der Elst (Tilburg University, Netherlands), “Blockchain Technology for Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism”
Discussant: Anthony J. Casey

Jakub J. Szczerbowski (SWPS University, Poland), ” Transaction Costs of Blockchain Smart Contracts”
Discussant: Enrico Rossi

Altug Yalcintas (Ankara University, Turkey) & Orçun Okasap (Ankara University, Turkey), “Commodification 2.0: How does Spotify Provide Its Services for Free?”
Discussant: Anthony J. Casey

Saturday 30 June

Transaction Costs in the Digital Era II

Chair: Geoffrey Hodgson

Anthony J. Casey (University of Chicago, USA) & Anthony Niblett (University of Toronto, Canada), “Self-driving contracts”
Discussant: Geoff Hodgson

Enrico Rossi (London School of Economics, UK), “Transaction cost economics and property right theories in the new digital and interconnected cconomy: in need for a new paradigm”
Discussant: Anna Reisch

Massimiliano Vatiero (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland), “Transacting with a smart contract: a preliminary inventory of its transaction costs”
Discussant: Jakub J. Szczerbowski

For further details the conference programme.