Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property
rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those …

This paper empirically investigates the interplay between de jure political institutions and de
facto elite-versus-citizen political power in determining the likelihood of the adoption of pro …

The exploitation of radio-electric spectrum bands for wireless transmission purposes has
some features of the commons: it is subject to congestion and conflict without rules …

Janos Kornai is one of the leading economists of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, his
interdisciplinary, systemic approach and the Austro-Hungarian convergence on the socialist …

A luta dos trabalhadores rurais pelo acesso à terra é antiga, mas a partir da década de 1990
este tema ganhou maior evidência no Brasil. Entre as soluções apresentadas pelos …

Property rights are the rules governing ownership in society. This Element offers an
analytical framework to understand the origins and consequences of property rights. It …

What is the relationship between central planning, pervasive shortages, and soft budget
constraints under socialism? In this paper, we address this question by exploring the …

The article focuses on the creation and effectiveness of private property rights, particularly in
the context of privatization efforts. Topics include Demsetz's theory on the costs and benefits …

Blockchains have been hailed as a game-changing institutional technology. Most of the
analysis of blockchains focuses on their uses in the Global North. Though there is increasing …

In this article I use a unique hand-coded dataset of all expropriation exercises in Jerusalem
over a twenty-five-year period to test the distribution of the expropriation burden across …