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

本研究将以先前的资助成果为基础，收集和汇编计算机可读文件中的数据集，并对12至15世纪英国和意大利特定非市场经济制度的性质、演变和影响进行比较实证和理论研究。研究将集中在支持按时间地点分开的“匿名”商品市场的机构，如信贷市场和未来交付合同。广泛的数据收集工作和建立在博弈论、契约理论和组织理论最新发展基础上的理论框架，将有助于对这些制度进行实证检验。此外，这项研究的目的是汇编数据集，以便更好地了解12世纪和13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，本研究将利用迄今为止尚未被经济史学家使用的分析方法，即网络分析。这项研究很重要，因为它将为现代制度的性质和演变提供新的视角，从而促进对发展中经济体和前东方集团经济体仍然面临的制度转型的理解。

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.