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Investment and credit effects of land titling and registration:

de Laiglesia, Juan R. - 2005

This paper analyzes the importance of legal property documents in providing tenure security, enhancing agricultural investment incentives and easing access to credit. While theory predicts that better property rights on land can increase investment through increased security, enhanced trade...

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Voracity and Growth Reconsidered

Strulik, Holger - 2009

This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and subsistence needs matter. It shows that if per capita income is sufficiently high, a windfall gain in productivity triggers behavior that leads to higher growth (the normal reaction). The same shock...

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Mode of Entry and Expropriation

Dadasov, Ramin; Lorz, Jens Oliver - 2010

We develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between mode of entry into a new market and institutional quality of the host country. A foreign investor can either purchase a domestic firm, what we consider as FDI, or form a joint venture, in which the control right over the...

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Territorial governance in the context of RIS3 smart specialisation strategy

Castillo, Jaime Del; Paton, Jonatan; Barroeta, Belen - 2014

In the current new competitive environment, smart specialization has emerged strongly as a territorial development model to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of economic systems. An aspect from which it differs from previous models is the special emphasis on governance. In this...

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Eigentumsformen und die Leistungsfähigkeit marktwirtschaftlicher Koordination

Walterscheid, Heike - 2015

Performance of market coordination crucially depends on the quality of property rights as a bundle of several acting rights. Since acting rights can be created, changed or abandoned within the political system, the scopes of political decision making processes have a deep impact on the quality...

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Staatsverschuldung, Banken und Demokratie: Die Bedeutung von Sinnverbund und der Einheit von Handeln und Haften in der Schuldenkrise der EWU

Walterscheid, Heike - 2014

Members of the European Currency Union and even a majority of all other Member States of the European Union are faced with high public and private depts. It is almost obvious that many Member States will have a problem with repaying depts and even are endanger to fall through interest payment....

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Taxation of Annual Income as a Commitment Device

Gaube, Thomas - 2010

-consistent taxation of annual income can also welfare-dominate taxation of lifetime income under commitment. These findings may help in …

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Temptation and Commitment in the Laboratory

Winter, Joachim; Houser, Daniel; Schunk, Daniel; Xiao, Erte - 2010

the timing and price-elasticity of these commitment decisions to predictions from existing theoretical models of decision … under temptation. Our data are broadly consistent with theory, with the notable exception that commitment often occurs with … delay rather than at the first opportunity. Moreover, the timing of commitment is significantly impacted by the cost of the …

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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies - Evidence from a New Index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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An Analysis of the Japanese viewpoint on regulatory policy of virtual child pornography

Watanabe, Mayuko - 2017

The Japanese law "Act on Regulation and Punishment of Acts Relating to Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the Protection of Children" (the Child Pornography Prohibition Act) does not regulate virtual child pornography such as comics, cartoons, animation, and games. As a result, cases...

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