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International property rights: the role of diversity
Das, Jayoti; DiRienzo, Cassandra E. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 41-55
level property rights and three measures of diversity: ethnic, linguistic, and religious. Past studies have assumed a linear … relationship between various measures of diversity and economic outcomes, including property rights. The assumption of a linear … relationship suggests that the estimated effect of diversity on the outcome will be the same for any change in diversity …
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Community-based forest management institutions in the Galician communal forests: A new institutional approach
Caballero, Gonzalo - In: Forest Policy and Economics 50 (2015) C, pp. 347-356
The interest in forests managed by communities has been increasing in recent decades, and it implied a relevant research agenda on community-based forest management institutions. This paper analyzes the process of institutional change, the property rights system and the governance mechanism in...
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Climbing to the top? Foreign Direct Investment and Property Rights.
Ali, Fathi; Fiess, Norbert; MacDonald, Ronald - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2009
This paper operates at the interface of the literature on the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host countries, and the literature on the determinants of institutional quality. We argue that FDI contributes to economic development by improving institutional quality in the host country...
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Revalorisation of property objects and collective action: the case of reclamation systems in northwest Poland
Schleyer, Christian - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 8 (2009) 1, pp. 74-89
This article examines two drastic changes in the performance of local water associations in providing local public goods – appropriate levels of water table – in the reclamation system in the Powiat Pyrzyce in the Voivodship Zachodniopomorski in northwest Poland. Employing an institutional...
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Thy neighbour’s property. Communal property rights and institutional change in an iron producing forest district of Sweden 1630-1750
Granér, Staffan - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2005
This paper focuses on the development of property rights to village com-mons, as they appear in the court rolls of a legal district in Sweden in the late 17th and the early 18th century. A development of agrarian property rights, from comparably attenuated towards more exclusive and private...
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Los derechos de propiedad en la agricultura de regadio: su situacion frente al cambio institucional
Miranda, Dionisio Ortiz; Delgado, Felisa Cena - In: Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales 01 (2001) 02
RESUMEN: La economía del agua en España se encuentra en una fase de cambio institucional, cuyo desarrollo va a estar fuertemente condicionado por la estructura de los derechos de propiedad sobre el agua. Esta estructura, en un contexto como el de la agricultura de regadío, está caracterizada...
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Democracy, Sea Power and Institutional Change: An Economic Analysis of the Athenian Naval Law
Kyriazis, Nicholas; Zouboulakis, Michel - In: European Journal of Law and Economics 17 (2004) 1, pp. 117-132
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Revalorisation of property objects and collective action: the case of reclamation systems in northwest Poland
Schleyer, Christian - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 8 (2009) 1, pp. 74-89
This article examines two drastic changes in the performance of local water associations in providing local public goods -- appropriate levels of water table -- in the reclamation system in the Powiat Pyrzyce in the Voivodship Zachodniopomorski in northwest Poland. Employing an institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005543749
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La dimension politique dans l'approche de la proximité
Talbot, Damien - In: Géographie, économie, société 12 (2010) 2, pp. 125-144
Opposing heterogeneous agents, imposing choices, and making divergent interests compatible, are all political prerequisites for agent coordination. Although these political prerequisites are not entirely ignored in proximity literature, such literature does tend to insist, for the most part, on<np pagenum="126"/>...
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Usefulness to Original Institutional Economics (OIE) of Normative Criteria Theory in the Frameworks of Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) and Paul A. Saba...
Hayden, F. Gregory - In: Journal of Economic Issues 45 (2011) 2, pp. 465-474
This article reviews and assesses Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and Paul A … theory of normative criteria and policymaking. The conclusions are that (1) Ostrom's IAD is not of assistance to …
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