Courses
Microeconomics, Economic Systems in Theory and Practice, Institutions of Production and Exchange

Research Interests
Professor Benham's area of concentration is industrial organization, and his current interests focus on the determinants and consequences of costs of exchange across countries. He is also interested in how governance procedures within organizations affect efficiency.

Selected Publications:

Agenda Control, Voter Homogeneity and the Survival of Voting in Firms, Economic Inquiry, October 1991, with Philip Keefer

On Improving Egypt’s Economic Performance: The Extent of the Market is Limited by the Costs of Exchange, Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, 1997.

Property Rights in Transition Economics: A Commentary on What Economists Know, in Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies, with Alexandra Benham, edited by Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker, (Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1998).

Measuring the Costs of Exchange, in Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, with Alexandra Benham, edited by Claude Ménard, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000).

Licit and Illicit Responses to Regulation in Handbook of Institutional Analysis, edited by Claude Menard and Mary Shirley, Kluwer Academic Press, forthcoming.