this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … land registration obsolete. Third, considering all of Japan's colonies, we use the presence or absence of a land survey as …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers … gains in capacity utilization that raised both their productivity and profitability levels, consistent with acquiring owner …

acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … acquisitions improved target firms%u2019 productivity and profitability significantly more and quicker than acquisitions by … domestic firms.Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms%u2019 profitability in the case of both …

the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as Japan during its high growth period. The paper …