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Professor Oliver Williamson

Transaction Cost Economics

What do investment in Eastern Europe, deregulation of the electric utility industry, and human resource management in emerging high-tech firms all have in common? All three are fields of inquiry in which cutting-edge research has been influenced heavily by Haas professor Oliver Williamson's pioneering work on transaction cost economics.

Williamson was named the 2004 recipient of the German H.C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics.

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