firms, large law firms. Our point of departure is the "property rights" approach that emphasizes the centrality of ownership …

This paper analyses the effect of extending equitable property division divorce laws to unmarried cohabiting couples in … relationshipspecific investments after being exposed to laws enabling the equitable redistribution of property in the event of relationship … have more children and are more likely to become home owners. These results demonstrate the causal effect of property …

In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially … present a model that fits the evolution of property rights observed over six centuries. Women's rights over the commons were …

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over …

inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm … this paper we introduce economies of scope into a property rights model where a producer contracts with two suppliers. The … decides whether to offshore inputs. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; property rights approach …