Property rights are the most fundamental institution in any society. They determine who has decision-making authority … historians have long recognized the importance of secure property rights for economic outcomes. Other political economy …, philosophy, historical, and legal literatures emphasize different, but critical attributes based on how property rights are …

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …

16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe and the Middle East. Using de- identified, aggregated meeting and …

. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering …

In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) argue property-rights institutions powerfully affect …

Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this … demonstrate that Parliament increased the number of acts reorganizing property rights in response to increases in the public …

demonstrate that Parliament increased the number of acts reorganizing property rights in response to increases in the demand for … responded elastically to changes in the public's demand for reorganizing property rights. Parliament's efforts to adapt property …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … followed only in Palau where individual property rights were well defined. Second, we show that well-defined property rights in … an instrument to identify the causal impact of new institutions. Our estimates show that property-defining institutions …

century Venetian spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal … Europe. In addition, it explores European market integration before and after 1503, the year when da Gama returned from his …