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Securing Property Rights [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 2016
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice. We present a model of a polluter whose discharges harm multiple owners, and we compare property rules, liability rules, and regulation on efficiency grounds.
E. Glaeser, G. Ponzetto, Andrei Shleifer
semanticscholar   +8 more sources

Property Rights and Finance [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external finance? From a survey of new firms in post-communist countries, we find that weak property rights discourage firms from reinvesting their ...
Christopher Woodruff   +2 more
core   +5 more sources

Understanding property rights [PDF]

open access: yesResearch Papers in Economics, 2004
The authors describe property rights as "overlapping 'bundles' of rights", which can be grouped as "use rights" and "control or decisionmaking rights". The authors then explain the concept of legal pluralism or many sources of rights and the implications
Di Gregorio, Monica   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Auditing and property rights [PDF]

open access: yesThe RAND Journal of Economics, 2004
This is the official published version. Copyright @ 2004 RANDThird-party audit provides incentives to an agent whose actions affect the value of an asset.
Iossa, E, Legros, P
core   +5 more sources

Property Rights and EconomicDevelopment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending theexisting literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economicdevelopment.
Maitreesh Ghatak, Timothy Besley
core   +6 more sources

Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights [PDF]

open access: green, 2001
This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system, innovators are paid for innovations directly by government (possibly on the basis of sales), and innovations pass immediately into the ...
Steven Shavell, Tanguy van Ypersele
openalex   +3 more sources

Preferences, Property Rights, and Anonymity in Bargaining Games

open access: green, 2000
Research on ultimatum and dictator games has found that because of "fairness" first movers in such games offer more than noncooperative game theory predicts.
Elizabeth Hoffman   +3 more
openalex   +3 more sources

Political Circles and Land Supply for the Service and Industrial Sectors: Evidence from 284 Cities in China

open access: yesLand, 2023
This study examines how political career incentives drive city leaders to strategically lease land to the service and industrial sectors within their terms of office and trigger political circles in land supply.
Ya Zhao   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Surveying and Squatting

open access: yesLand, 2022
Although its scale and social implications depend on the specific country or local situations, squatting is a global urban and rural phenomenon associated with such humanitarian issues as social justice, poverty and environmental impact, as well as ...
Lawrence W. C. Lai, K. W. Chau
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering the voiceless. Disorders of consciousness, neuroimaging and supported decision-making

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Patients suffering from (Prolonged) Disorder of Consciousness are deemed incompetent to give valid informed consent due to the presumed impairment of their cognitive functions and the impossibility to communicate with them. Neuroscientists have, however,
Timo Istace, Timo Istace
doaj   +1 more source

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