membership. It examines the dynamics of the ownership of durable goods by wealth classes, geographic locations, and various … ownership of durable goods between 1995 and 2003, with the poorest class making a significant gain between 2001 and 2003 after … having lost some ground between 1995 and 2001. There was also convergence in the ownership of durable goods between urban and …

Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …

of Serbia to examine the relationship between productivity, the investment climate, and private ownership of firms. As … government capacity to address investment climate constraints is limited, the prioritization of the constraints is critical …. Identification of the relative effects of various investment climate constraints and ownership on productivity should serve as a …

risk diversification strategy. The authors predict that this higher share of insider ownership and the resulting exposure … of insiders to higher idiosyncratic risk will result in underinvestment and higher cost of capital. Using firm-level data … study imply that policies aimed at strengthening investor protection laws and their enforcement will improve capital …