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 …

) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …

exploit a judicial independence reform in China with staggered roll-out since 2014. The reform removed local governments ….4% more inward investment flows into reformed localities. This has the potential to increase China's GDP by 2.3% when the …