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Transaction Costs in Coasean Bargaining
Transaction costs are impediments that can prevent private bargaining from achieving a Pareto-efficient outcome, making private solutions impractical. These costs include not only direct expenses like legal fees but also the challenges associated with the negotiation process itself. A significant component of these costs is the difficulty in observing and accurately measuring relevant information, such as the precise impact of an externality. When the costs of gathering information, bargaining, and enforcing a contract are prohibitively high, negotiations are likely to fail, even if property rights are clearly defined.
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