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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition
Friebel, Guido - 2007
weak outsider property rights enforcement in Russia. Keywords: institutional environment and internal labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465657
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Property Rights and Finance
Johnson, Simon; Woodruff, Christopher; McMillan, John - 2002
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their profits, even when bank loans are available....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469863
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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830 : A New Source for British History
Bogart, Dan - 2008
A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464254
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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
Maurer, Noel - 2008
We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464349
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China's Land Market Auctions : Evidence of Corruption
Cai, Hongbin - 2009
This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state. Leasehold use rights for land for (re)development are sold by city governments and are a key source of city revenue. Leasehold sales are viewed as a major venue for corruption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463582
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The creation of the rule of law and the legitimacy of property rights : the political and economic consequences of a corrupt privatization
Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2005
investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522421
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The Creation of the Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Property Rights : The Political and Economic Consequences of a Corrupt Privatization
Hoff, Karla - 2005
investigate the demand for the rule of law in post-Communist economies after privatization under the assumption that theft is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466899
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After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies
Hoff, Karla - 2002
When Russia launched mass privatization, it was widely believed that it would create a powerful constituency for the … show that beneficiaries of mass privatization may fail to demand the rule of law even if it is the Pareto efficient rule of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469426
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Restructuring
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000112367
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …
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