How do insecure property rights over land affect electoral competition and the level of violence? To answer this question, I explore original empirical evidence from Dagestan, Russia’s most turbulent North Caucasian republic. The exploration is based on a statistical analysis of district-level...

In this paper we review the most significant empirical literature on the causal effects of land property rights. The literature indicates that secure property rights boost investment in both rural and urban areas. These effects, however, do not appear to be the result of improved credit...

This article presents decision models for choice of Land Title system, and shows that the Torrens/Registration system will be more efficient for the overall economy, given several constraints such as transaction costs, availability of title insurance, average tenant owner tenure, available legal...

This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics,shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a richsource of information for those involved in conservation, land dispute resolution, landmarket regulation, public...