Non-Market Institutions, Market Integration and the Growth of Europe

这项研究将在先前拨款结果的基础上，收集和汇编计算机可读文件中的数据集，并对12世纪至15世纪英国和意大利特定的非市场经济机构的性质、演变和影响进行比较的实证和理论研究。这项研究将集中在支持“匿名”商品市场的机构，这些市场按时间和地点分开，例如信贷市场和未来交货的合同。广泛的数据收集工作和理论框架，建立在博弈论、契约理论和组织理论的最新发展基础上，将有助于对这些机构进行实证检验。此外，这项研究的目的是汇编数据集，以便更好地了解十二世纪和十三世纪初在热那亚管理机构关系的机构。为了分析和呈现这些数据，这项研究将利用一种迄今为止尚未被经济史学家使用的分析方法，即网络分析。这项研究之所以重要，是因为它将为现代制度的性质和演变提供新的线索，从而有助于理解发展中经济体和前东方集团经济体仍面临的体制转型。

Building on the results of a previous grant, this research will collect and compile data sets in computer readable files, and conduct a comparative empirical and theoretical study of the nature, evolution, and implications of specific non-market economic institutions in England and Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. The research will concentrate on the institutions that supported "anonymous" markets for goods which are separated by time place such as credit markets and contracts for future delivery. An extensive data collection effort and a theoretical framework, building on recent developments in game theory, contract theory, and organization theory, will facilitate an empirical examination of these institutions. In addition, the study is aimed at compiling data sets which will provide a better understanding of the institutions that governed agency relations in Genoa during the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. To analyze and present this data, the research will take advantage of an analytical method which so far has not been utilized by economic historians, namely, network analysis. This research is important because it will shed new light on the nature and evolution of modern institutions, thereby facilitating the understanding of the institutional transition that developing economies and the economies of the former Eastern block still face.