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III. Research Agenda
Pages 7-10

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... ; it should focus on empirical work that indicates whether and how institutional changes are altering the behavior of economic actors, be they households, enterprises or government insulations. Care should be exercised to avoid equating changes in labels with changes of state or behaviors.
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... Legal institutions for transactions (administrative avocation, contracts) The pane} suggests that research on institutional changes should explicitly take into account their impact on critical equity and efficiency considerations.
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... Proliferation of new enterprises The Pane} provided the following examples as indicative of some of the lines of research it considers potentially productive: Change in the information system. The panel suggested that researchers identify existing accounting or reporting institutions and processes and indicate the changers)
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... Sustained data collection efforts, such as those of the National Longitudinal Survey or the General Social Survey, could produce particularly significant data. Sample survey research could also elicit indicators of the restrictions that continue to 10
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