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Legal Doctrine and Judicial Review of Eminent Domain in China
Mao, Wenzheng; Qiao, Shitong - 2021
-ever systematic investigation of the judicial review of eminent domain in China. Our empirical study reveals that Chinese courts focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240783
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On the Edge of the Law : The Cost of Informal Property Rights Adjudication in Kisii, Kenya
Henrysson, Elin - 2007
The disjuncture between public and customary law regulating property rights is a problem for capital formation and poverty alleviation across Africa. In Kenya, government efforts to establish clearly defined property rights and adjudication mechanisms have been plagued by the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729503
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Parties' Rights in Mortgages Property after ECJ Rulings on Mortgage Enforcement Proceedings
Ramaekers, Eveline - 2016
This paper discusses a series of ECJ judgments on national mortgage enforcement proceedings in light of the Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts. According to the Court, national courts must be able to provide interim measures suspending mortgage enforcement proceedings, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004911
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Getting Property Right : 'Informal' Mortgages in the Japanese Courts
Bennett, Frank - 2010
In Japan's civil law property system, courts recognize a form of extra-statutory security, the jōto tanpo or title-transfer security interest, that is created by conveying legal title to the creditor, with a promise to restore it to the debtor upon repayment. Although best known today as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148635
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Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Patents : One Experimental View of the Cathedral
Torrance, Andrew W.; Tomlinson, Bill - 2015
In their seminal 1972 article, "Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral," Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed proposed an analytic framework for comparing entitlements protected by property rules and liability rules. Their article has become one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173756
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Climate Change, Carbon Sequestration, and Property Rights
Wilson, Elizabeth J.; Klass, Alexandra B. - 2014
This Article considers the role of property rights in efforts to sequester underground hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year from power plants and other industrial facilities in order to mitigate climate change. This technology, known as carbon capture and sequestration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209409
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Patent Litigation in China : Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?
Love, Brian J.; Helmers, Christian; Eberhardt, Markus - 2016
Though it lacked a patent system until 1985, China is now the world leader in patent filings and litigation. Despite … active intellectual property (IP) dockets in China. Among other things, we find that Chinese patent suits are highly … cases roughly as often as Chinese patentees. Finally, we find that patents litigated in China are generally more than five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129228
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Is Stronger Property Right Protection Always Good? Evidence from the Centralized Jurisdiction of Administrative Litigation in China
Zhao, Da; Yu, Litian; Guo, Jingyuan - 2022
opportunistic behaviors, which could undermine public interest. This paper exploits unique features of China’s centralized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077564
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Property Rights Protection and Investment : A Natural Experiment from China
Miao, Meng - 2017
investment. In order to explore a title-granting scheme in Shenzhen, China, I collect a sample of 83 listed SOE firms, with 32 of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972439
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The Effect of Property Rights Protection on Capital Structure : Evidence from a Chinese Natural Experiment
Liu, Yixin - 2020
experiment, the enactment of China's Property Rights Law in 2007 (the Law). Using a large dataset of non-listed firms, we … financially constrained firms as creditor rights are strengthened. We also document a leverage decline in China's listed firms …
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