Assets are an important means of coping with adverse events in developing countries but the role of gendered ownership … of assets, but relative ownership varies by type of asset. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across households and …

. Inside ownership reflects the classic tradeoff between incentives and risk diversification, and the severity of agency costs …, inside ownership, and the marginal cost of capital. We discuss implications for the determinants of firm size, the … relationship between Tobin's Q and ownership, and the effect of financial liberalizations. …