# kaal:claim:3441904-011

**Claim.** Inexpensive open source smart contracts eliminate a major motivation for creating a firm under Coase's transaction cost theory, because they enable trustworthy transactions of any size with minimal transaction cost and high transaction security.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- transactions that can be executed through smart contracts

**Source quote.**

> Inexpensive open-source smart contracts eliminate a major motivation for creating a firm under Ronald Coase's transaction cost theory.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance* (2019), II.3 The Theory of the Firm Revisited, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain-Based Corporate Governance (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3441904

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**Topics.** economics, smart-contracts

**Keywords.** theory-of-the-firm, transaction-cost, smart-contracts, coase

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