Benjamin Klein

Benjamin Klein
Économiste
Dates	1943 -
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Nationalité	États-Unis
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Benjamin Klein, né en 1943 à New York, est un économiste américain, professeur émérite à UCLA où il a enseigné l'économie à partir de 1968. Il s'est intéressé à une approche concurrentielle du système monétaire et à la théorie de l'intégration verticale. Il s'est également intéressé en profondeur aux sujets liés à l'antitrust.

Il est titulaire d'un PhD en économie obtenu à l'université de Chicago en 1970, d'un M.A. de la même université (1966) et d'un B.A. de la City University of New York (1964). Outre UCLA, il a également enseigné à l'Université de Washington et à la faculté de droit de l'université de Chicago, ainsi qu'occupé des postes au sein du National Bureau of Economic Research.

Publications

• 1973, avec Armen Alchian, On aCorrect Measure of Inflation, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol 5, n°1, pp173—191

• 1974, "The Competitive Supply of Money." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 6 (Nov. 1974): 423-453

• 1975,
  • a. Our New Monetary Standard: The Measurement and Effects of Price Uncertainty, 1880-1973, Economic Inquiry, Vol 13, Dec., pp461-484
  • b. Commentaire du livre d'Israel Kirzner, Competition and Entrepreneurship, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 83, n°6, Dec., pp1305-1309
• 1976, "Competing Monies: A Comment." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 8 (Nov. 1976): 513-519
• 1976, "The Social Costs of the Recent Inflation: The Mirage of Steady 'Anticipated' Inflation." In Karl Brunner et Allan Meltzer, eds. Institutional Arrangements and the Inflation Problem. New York: North Holland Publishing, pp185-212

• 1978,
  • a. Competing Monies, European Monetary Union, and the Dollar." In M. Fratianni and T. Peeters, eds., One Money for Europe. London: Macmillan
  • b. "Money, Wealth, and Seignorage", In: Kenneth E. Boulding et Thomas Frederick Wilson, dir., Redistribution Through the Financial System. New York: Praeger
  • c. avec Robert G. Crawford et Armen Alchian, Vertical integration, Appropriable Rents and the Competitive Contracting Process, Journal of Law and Economics, 21, pp297-326

• 1978, avec Robert Crawford, "Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process" (Intégration verticale, rentes appropriables et le processus contractiuel en concurrence), Journal of Law and Economics
  • Repris en 1986, In: Louis Putterman, Randall S. Kroszner, dir., "The Economic Nature of the Firm. A Reader", Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ch 8, pp96-115

• 1980,
  • a. Transaction Cost Determinants of "Unfair" Contractual Arrangements, The American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninety-Second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (mai), pp356-362
  • b. The borderlines of law and economic theory: Transaction cost determinants of 'unfair' contractual arrangements, Am. Econ. Rev., Vol 70, n°2, pp356-362

• 1981, avec Keith B. Leffler, The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 89, No. 4. (Aug.), pp615-641

• 1983,
  • a. Contracting Costs and Residual Claims: The Separation of Ownership and Control, Journal of Law and Economics. 26: 367–374
  • b. avec Roy W. Kenney, The Economics of Block Booking, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 26, n°3, october, pp497-540

• 1985,
  • a. avec Lester F. Saft, The Law and Economics of Franchise Tying Contracts, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 28, n°2, pp345-361
  • b. Self-Enforcing Contracts, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, pp594-600

• 1987, The Economic Lessons of Fisher Body-General Motors, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol 14, n°1, February, pp1-36

• 1988,
  • a. Vertical Integration as Organized Ownership: The Fisher Body-General Motors Relationship Revisited, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 4, Spring, pp199–233
  • b. avec Kevin M. Murphy, Vertical Restraints as contract enforcement mechanism, Journal of Law and Economics, 31(2), pp265-297

• 1993,
  • a. Market Power in Antitrust: Economic Analysis after Kodak, Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 3, pp43-92
  • b. "Brand Names", In David R. Henderson, dir., "The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics: 141 Top Economists Explain the Theories, Mechanics, and Institutions of Money, Trade, and Markets", New York: Time-Warner Books, Inc., pp618-622
    • Repris dans la nouvelle édition en 2002, "Brand Names"

• 1995, The Economics of Franchise Contracts, Journal of Corporate Finance: Contracting, Governance and Organization, Vol 2, n°1/2, pp9-38

• 1996,
  • a. Market Power in Aftermarkets, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, Special Issue: The Role of Economists in Modern Antitrust. (Mar. - Apr.), pp143-164
  • b. Why "hold-ups" occur: The "self-enforcing range" of contractual relationships, Economic Inquiry, Vol 34, octobre, pp444-463
  • c. avec Elizabeth Granitz, Monopolization by raising rivals’ costs: the Standard Oil Case, Journal of Law and Economics, vol. XXXIX, avril, pp1-47

• 1999, Distribution Restrictions Operate By Creating Dealer Profits: Explaining the Use of Maximum Resale Price Maintenance in State Oil v. Khan, Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol 7, pp1-58

• 2000,
  • a. Fisher-General Motors and the Nature of the Firm, Journal of Law and Economics. 43 (1): 105–141
  • b. avec Roy W. Kenney, How Block Booking Facilitated Self-Enforcing Film Contracts, Journal of Law and Economics, Vol 43, n°2, October, pp427¬435
  • c. The Role of Incomplete Contracts In Self-Enforcing Relationships, Revue d'Economie Industrielle, n° 92, 2e et 3e trimestres, n° spécial sur "The Economics of Contract Theories in Prospect and Retrospect", pp67-80

• 2004, "Fisher Body-General Motors Once Again: How Do We Know When a Holdup Occurs?", WP., UCLA. 41 pages.

• 2008, "Economics of Antitrust Law", Edward Edgar, avec Andres V. Lerner

• 2010, "Asset specifi city and holdups", In: Peter G. Klein, Michael E. Sykuta, dir., "The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics", Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, pp120-126

Littérature secondaire

• "Benjamin Klein's Contributions to Law and Economics", PIONEERS OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, Lloyd R. Cohen, Joshua D. Wright, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 08-31, [lire en ligne]

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