We examine land reform policies and their implications for violent conflict over land and resource use in the Brazilian Amazon. We identify the protagonists (land owners and squatters), derive their incentives to use violence, and show the role of legal inconsistencies as a basis for conflict....

Kundinnen und Kunden kommunizieren, kaufen und teilen Produkte und Dienstleistungen über digitale Plattformen, in denen technische Möglichkeiten zur Präsentation sensorischer Elemente im Normalfall auf visuelle, akustische und schriftliche Elemente begrenzt sind. Um das sensorische...

This paper explores the link between Brazil's political institutions and its disappointing productivity and growth in recent decades. Although political institutions provide the president with incentives and the instruments to pursue monetary stability and fiscal discipline they simultaneously...

The process of assigning property rights to land in the American Great Plains resulted in farms that were too small to be economically viable. These farms were prime contributors to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The path dependence resulting from the initial assignment of property rights on the...