property rights regime. We show how stronger property rights may lead to capital accumulation and labor reallocation to the … strong property rights are crucial for success upon globalization. …

political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income … better as a control of corruption if the property rights system works and there is a low level of income inequality. On the …

cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite for trade. Specifically, a complete market for river water may not …

investigates this question, focusing on a key economic right for women: property rights. The basic hypothesis is that the process … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women’s property rights whereas legal … the theoretical predictions by using cross-state variation in the US in the timing of married women obtaining property and …

The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on … combination of public property with collective use in particular forest areas can generate competitive and, at the same time …, sustainable exploitation of its natural resources. This paper aims to analyse whether the existing property rights support the …

substantially aggravates pollution probably through loosening environment regulation, and that it modifies the effects of trade … observe that corruption significantly decreases government spending on education, R&D and public health in China. We also … that the pollution haven hypothesis may not hold in China. This finding sheds a new light on the “China puzzle” that China …