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 …

1. Chapter One: Introduction -- 2. Chapter Two: Self-Ownership and Property Rights -- 3. Chapter Three: Legacies of … self-ownership and individual responsibility. They correctly point out that the hardships that the ancestors of those now …

. 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. …

imperfections in legal unbundling (keeping ownership fixed) generally increases total output. Increasing the incumbent's ownership …, higher ownership shares of the downstream incumbent may sometimes lead to lower degrees of imperfections. Our analysis … suggests that consumers may benefit most from legal unbundling with strong regulation and parts of ownership given to a …