This paper presents an econometric approach to the evaluation of environmental regulation using tradable property …

forest products industry (specifically, the lumber sector) and the extent to which organizational orientation within the … acquire only one orientation at any one time). The United States forest products industry has traditionally been perceived as …

research. Therefore, I shift focus and method, discussing the reform of rules governing land rights in Colombia in the late … nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Colombia’s insertion into the world economy raised demand for land fertile for growing … coffee. I show how large landowners and peasants competed over land rights through a lengthy and sometimes violent political …

that a one percentage point improvement in government practice could increase the daily value-added of an average firm by … market information, more secure land tenure and labor training assistance has a positive effect on firm performance. By …

, lack of user participation in irrigation district management, fragmented government management, and lack of a compensating …

land development in areas with pervasive squatting. The model predicts that squatter settlements develop with higher …