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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. CaseyJakub J. Szczerbowski (SWPS University, Poland), ” Transaction Costs of Blockchain Smart Contracts”
Discussant: Enrico RossiAltug 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 HodgsonEnrico 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.