Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis

1. What are Institutions? How Should We Approach Them?

I. PROTO-INSTITUTIONS: INTRODUCING BASIC TYPES

2. Customary Property Right and Community Norms
3. The Private-Ordered Governance of Trade, Contracts, and Markets
4. Organizational Architecture and Governance
5. The Co-Evolution of Organizational Conventions and Human Asset Types
6. States as Stable Equilibria in the Polity Domain

II. A GAME-THEORETIC FRAMEWORK FOR INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

7. A Game-Theoretic Concept of Institutions
8. The Synchronic Structure of Institutional Linkage
9. Subjective-Game Models and the Mechanism of Institutional Change
10. Diachronic Linkages of Institutions

III. AN ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY

11. Comparative Corporate Governance
12. Types of Relational Financing and the Value of Tacit Knowledge
13. Institutional Complementarities, Co-Emergence, and Crises: The Case of the Japanese Main Bank System
14. Institutional Innovation of the Silicon Valley Model in the Product System Develpment
15. Epilogue: Why Does Institutional Diversity Continue to Evolve?