With regard to the methodology of the measurement of transaction costs, it is important to highlight several pioneering works, including:

• WALLIS, J., y. NORTH, D. C (1986), “Measuring the Transactions Sector in the American Economy” in Long Term Factors in American Economic Growth, S. Engerman, and R. Gallman eds., University of Chicago Press.
• De SOTO, Hernando, (1987), “El otro sendero, la revolución informal”, Buenos Aires, Ed. Sudamericana, 1987.

The most recent compilations about the different measurement methods include:

• Banco Mundial: www.doingbusiness.org/MethodologySurveys/
• WANG, Ning. (2003), “Measuring Transaction Costs: An Incomplete Survey”, Ronald Coase Institute Working Paper Series (No. 2)

General bibliography:
(classics)

• ALSTON, L. J., T. EGGERTSSON, y D. C. North (1996): “Empirical Studies in Institutional Change”, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
• BECKER, G., (1997) [1976]: “La esencia del Becker”, Barcelona, Ariel, pp: 47-58. BOUCKAERT B. & DE GEEST G. (eds.) (2000): “Encyclopedia of Law and Economics\", Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
• CABRILLO, F., (1997): “Costes de transacción y eficiencia económica”. Revista del Instituto de Estudios Económicos 1 y 2, pp. 465- 475.
• COASE, R. H., (1984): “The New Institutional Economic”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 140, pp. 229-231.
• - (1994): “Essays on Economics and Economist”, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press.
• - (1994): “La empresa, el mercado y la ley”, Madrid, Alianza.
• NEWMAN, P. (ed.), (1998): “The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law”, London: MacMillan Reference, New York: Stockton Press.
• NORTH, D. C., (1993) [1990]: “Instituciones, cambio institucional y desempeño económico”, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
• OLSON, M., (1992): “La lógica de la acción colectiva. Bienes públicos y la teoría de grupos”, México, Limusa.
• EGGERTSSON, T., (1995): “El comportamiento económico y las instituciones”, Madrid, Alianza Editorial.
• FAMA, E., (1980): “Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm”, Journal of Political Economy, 88: 288-307.
• POLINSKY, A. M., (1985): “Introducción al Análisis Económico del Derecho”, Barcelona, Ariel.
• POSNER, R. A. (1977): “Economic Analysis of Law”. Little, Brown and Company; Boston y Toronto, (2ª edition)
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• WILLIAMSON, O. E., (1989) [1985]: “Las instituciones económicas del capitalismo”, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
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(Recent)

• ACEMOGLU, D., S. JOHNSON y J. A. ROBINSON (2004): “Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-run Growth”, Working Paper 10481, National Bureau of Economic Research”.
• ACEMOGLU, D., S. JOHNSON, J. A. ROBINSON y THAICHAROEN (2003): “Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth”, Journal of Monetary Economics, 50, 49‑123.
• ACEMOGLU, D. y J. A. ROBINSON (2000): “Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development”, American Economic Review, 90, pp. 126-130.
• BENHAM, A. y BENHAM, L, (2000), “Measuring the Costs of Exchange\" 2000, en Claude Ménard, editor, Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 367-375.
• BUCKLEY, F. (1999): “The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract”, Durham (N.C.), Duke University Press.
• - (2007): “Law, Institutions and Economic Development: Common Law v. Civil Law”. En Public Choice and the Challenges Democracy Faces. (J. Casas y P. Schwarz, eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
• - (2006): “Gresham’s law in politics: Why are politicians not the most remarkable men for probity and punctuality?” European Journal of Law and Economics 21, pp. 99-112.
• - (2001): “The New Institutional Economic”, American Economic Review, Vol. 88, n.2, p.72-4.
• COOTER R. & ULEN, T., (1999): “Law and Economics”, 3rd ed., Massachusetts, Addison Wesley Longman of Reading.
• FRAILE BALBIN, P., (1998): “La retórica contra la competencia en España (1875-1975)”, Madrid, Fundación Argentaria.
• FRIEDMAN, D. (2000): “Law\'s Order, What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters”, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press.
• FURUBOTN, E., y RICHTER, R., (1997): “Institutions and Economic Theory. The contribution of the New Institutional Economic”, EEUU, The University of Michigan Press.
• GLAESER, E., R. La PORTA, F. LÓPEZ de SILANES y A. SCHLEIFER (2004): “Do Institutions Cause Growth?”, Journal of Economic Growth, September.
• KAPLOW L. & SHAVELL S. (2002): “Fairness Versus Welfare”, Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press.
• KANE, T., KIM R. HOLMES, K., O\'GRADY, M.,(2007) “Index of Economic Freedom The Link Between Economic Opportunity and Prosperity”. Heritage Foundation.
• ROEMER, A., (Comp.) (2000): “Derecho y Economía: una revisión de la literatura”, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica.
• SAN EMETERIO, N., (2006): “La Nueva economía institucional”. Madrid, Editorial Síntesis.
• SEBASTIÁN, C., SERRANO, G. R., ROCA, J., OSÉS, J., (2008): “Instituciones y Economía”. Madrid, Editorial Centro de Estudios Ramón Areces.
• THE WORLD BANK, (2004, 2005, 2006 y 2007), Doing Business, Oxford University Press.