Assuming that transactions costs are sufficiently low, the Coase theorem results in the economic pie being maximized. What impact do legal constraints have on this prediction of the Coase theorem?

What will be an ideal response?


Legal restraints will not affect the total amount of income, but they will affect the shares of that income that go to each party to the transaction.

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