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Alchian, Armen, and Susan Woodward. 1991. "Reflections on the Theory of the Firm." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station. 
Athey, Susan and John Roberts. 2001. "Organizational Design: Decision Rights and Incentive Contracts." The American Economic Review 91(2) 200-2005.
Arrow, Kenneth. 1984. "The Economics of Agency." The Economic Series, Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Technical Report No. 451.
Baker, George. 1992. "Incentive Contracts and Performance Measurement." The Journal of Political Economy 100(3): 598-614.
Beatty, Randolph and Edward Zajac. 1994. "Managerial Incentives, Monitoring, and Risk Bearing: A Study of Executive Compensation, Ownership, and Board Structure in Initial Public Offerings" Administrative Science Quarterly 39(2): 313-335.
Bebchuk, Lucian, and Jesse Fried. 2003. "Executive Compensation as an Agency Problem." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(3): 71-92
Bordignon, Massimo and Enrico Minelli. 2001. "Rules Transparency and Political Accountability" Journal of Public Economics 80: 73-98.

Braun, D. (1998) “The role of Funding Agencies in the Cognitive Development of Science”, Research Policy, vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 807-821

Brickley, James, Clifford Smith, and Jerold Zimmerman. 2004. "Incentive Compensation" Chapter 15 in Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture, Mcgraw Hill Irwin. 

Caswill, C. (2003)  "Principals, agents and contracts", in D. Braun and D. Guston (eds), Science and Public Policy Special Issue on Principal-Agent Theory, Vol. 30, No. 5, October 2003, pp 337-346. 

Cohen, Mark. 1987. "Optimal Enforcement Strategy to Prevent Oil Spills: An Application of a Principal-Agent Model with Moral Hazard" Journal of Law and Economics 30(1): 23-51.
Cole, Rebel and Robert Eisenbeis. 1995. "The Role of Principal-Agent Conflicts in the 1980s Thrift Crisis." Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 95-27, Federal Reserve Board: Washington D.C.
De Alessi, Louis. 1991. "Development of the Property Rights Approach." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station. 
Dye, Ronald. 1986. "Optimal Monitoring Policies in Agencies." The RAND Journal of Economics 17(3): 339-350.
Eisenhardt, Kathleen. 1989. "Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review." The Academy of Management Review 14(1): 57-74.
Ferris, James. 1992. "School-Based Decision Making: A Principal-Agent Perspective." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14(4): 333-346.
Frank, Robert. 2003. "The Economics of Information and Choice under Uncertainty." Chapter 6 in Microeconomics and Behavior, 5th Edition, McGraw Hill-Irwin.
Garen, John. 1994. "Executive Compensation and Principal-Agent Theory." The Journal of Political Economy 102(6): 1175-1199.
Helm, Dieter, Cameron Hepburn, and Richard Mash.200?. "Credible Carbon Policy" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19(3):438-450.
 
Hepburn, Cameron. 2006. "Regulation by Prices, Quantities or Both: A review of Instrument Choice." Draft Paper.
 
Joskow, Paul. 1985. "Vertical Integration and Long-Term Contracts: The Case of Coal-Burning Electric Generating Plants." Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 1(1): 33-80.
       
    Joskow, Paul. 1991. "Long Term Vertical Relationships and the Study of Industrial Organization and Government Regulation." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station.   
       
    Krepps, Matthew and Richard Caves. 1992. "Bureaucrats and Indians: Principal-Agent Relations and Efficient Management of Tribal Forest Resources." Jopurnal of Economic Behavior and Organization 24:133-151.  
       
    Laffont, Jean-Jacques and David Martimort. 2002. "Incentives in Economic Thought." Chapter 1 in The Thoery of Incentives: The Prinicipal-Agent Model,  Princeton University Press.  
       
    Leland, Hayne. 1979. "Quacks, Lemons, and Licensing: A Theory of Minimum Quality Standards." The Journal of Political Economy 87(6): 1328-1346.  
       
    Lindberg, Siegwart. 1991. "A New Push in the theory of Organization: A Commentary on O.E. Williamson's Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Organization." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station.  
       
    Lubatkin, Michael, Peter Lane, Sven-Olaf Collin, and Phillipe Very. 2005.  "Origins of Corporate Governance in the USA, Sweden and France." Organization Studies, 26(6): 867-888.  
       
    Macneil, Ian. 1991. "Reflections on Relational Contract." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station.   
       
    McCubbins, Mathew, Roger Noll, and Barry Weingast. 1987. "Administrative Procedures as Instruments of Political Control.."  Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 3(2): 243-277.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Market Failures and Hierarchical Solutions: The Tension." Chapter 1 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Bargaining Failure: Coordination, Bargaining, and Contracts." Chapter 2 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Voting Failure: Social Choice in a Dictatorial Hierarchy." Chapter 3 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Vertical Dilemmas: Piece Rate Incentives and Credible Commitment." Chapter 5 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Hidden Action in Hierarchies: Principals, Agents and Teams." Chapter 6 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Miller, Gary. 1992. "Hidden Information in Hierarchies: the Logical Limits of Mechanism Design." Chapter 7 in Managerial Dilemmas: the Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  
       
    Moe, Terry. 1984. "The New Economics of Organization." American Journal of Political Science 28(4): 739-777.  
       
    Moe, Terry. 2005. "Political Control and the Power of the Agent." Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. 22(1): 1-29.  
       
    Nicolaïdis, Kalypso. . "We, the Peoples of Europe", in Foreign Affairs, November/December 2004, pp.97-110.  
       
    North, Douglass and Barry Weingast. 1989. "Constitutions and Commitment: the Evolution of Institutional Governing - Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England." The Jounral of Economic History 49(4): 803-832.  
       
    North, Douglass. 1991. "Institutions." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 5(1): 97-112.  
       
    Olson, Mancur. "Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development." The American Political Science Review 87(3): 567-576.  
       
   

O’Reilly, Charles and Brian Main. 2005. "Setting the CEO’s Pay: Economic and Psychological Perspectives" Stanford Graduate School of Business, Research Paper No. 1912.

 
       
    Richards, Kenneth. 2000. "Framing Environmental Policy Instrument Choice."  Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 10: 221.  
       
    Sappington, David. 1991. "Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships." The Journal of Economic Persepctives. 5(2): 45-66.  
       
    Schleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny. 1996. "A Survey of Corporate Governance." National Bureau of Economic Research, NBER Working Paper 5554, Cambridge, MA.  
       
    Spence, Michael. 1973. "Job Market Signaling." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 87(3): 355-374.  
       
    Stoker, Gerry. 1998. "Governance as Theory: Five Propositions." International Social Science Journal, 50(155):17-28.  
       
   

Thomas, Landon. 2006. "The Winding Road to Grasso's Huge Payday" New York Times, June 25, 2006

  
       
    Tirole, Jean. 1990. "The Theory of the Firm." pp 15-60 in The Theory of Industrial Organization, MIT Press.  
       
    Van der Meulen, B.J.R. (1998) “Science Policies as Principal-Agent Games: Institutionalisation and Path Dependency in the Relation between Government and Science”, Research Policy, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 397-414.  
       
    Weingast, Barry. 1984. "The Congressional-Bureaucratic System: A Principal Agent Perspective (with Applications to the SEC). Public Choice 44: 147-191.  
       
    Williamson, Oliver. 1991. "The Economics of Governance: Framework and Implications." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station.   
       
    Williamson, Oliver. 1991. "A Comparison of Alternative Approaches to Economic Organization." in Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter The New Institutional Economics, Texas A&M Press: College Station.   
       
    Williamson, Oliver. 1988. "Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance." The Journal of Finance XLIII(3): 567-591.  
       
    Williamson, Oliver. 1979. "Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations." Journal of Law and Economics 22(2): 233-261.  
       
    Woods, Ngaire. 2006. "Bretton Woods Institutions." Chapter 13 of Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws (eds), Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford University Press, 2006)  
       
    Woods, Ngaire. 2000.  "The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves." World Development 28(5): 823-841.  
       
     
       
    Woods, Ngaire and Amrita Narlikar. 2001. "Governance and the Limits of Accountability: The WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank" International Social Science Journal
53(170): 569-583. 		 
       
    Woods, Ngaire. 2000. "Globalization and the Challenege to International Institutions."  Final version published in Ngaire Woods (ed), The Political Economy of Globalization, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.

 

  

 

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