Contracts and competition: an introduction
介绍合同作为经济治理机制的角色，探讨制度、信任与经济绩效的关系，适合关注合同与竞争交叉研究的学者。
Changes in public policy and corporate strategy have enhanced the role of contracts as mechanisms of economic governance. The understanding that norms, standards and other forms of regulatory mechanism can affect the structure of incentives and the quality of contractual outcomes has helped to stimulate a wider debate concerning institutions and economic performance. Among the themes explored in this Special Issue, which draws on the UK ESRC's Contracts and Competition Programme, are the need for interdisciplinary analysis of economic organisation; the link between contracts and trust; and the complex relationship between institutional forms and economic outcomes.