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Definition of Coase Theorem

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Definition: Informally the Coase Theorem states that in presence of complete competitive markets and the absence of transactions costs, an efficient set of inputs to production and outputs from production will be chosen by agents regardless of how property rights over the inputs were assigned to the agents. (Econterms)

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