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Showing 1 to 20 of 427 for “"Property Rights"”.
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Property Rights in Environmental Resources
This thesis examines the nature of property rights over environmentally sensitive resources and develops a new conception of property in these resources. It has implications for the design of property law, environmental law, and the ethical responsibilities of business in the use of resources. I …
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Property Rights Or Property Wrong: Do Property Rights Matter In Household Access To Irrigation Water? Evidence From Mid-hills, Nepal
… varied amongst irrigation governed by different property right regimes. In response to these concerns, this multidisciplinary study uses mixed methodologies of data collection and analysis to explore a subjective measure of households’ access to water from irrigation systems managed by different …
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Essays on intellectual property rights and product differentiation
… is a collection of essays on intellectual property rights and optimal product selection when innovation occurs sequentially. One of the highlights of this dissertation has been to show the possibility of full rent extraction by the patent holder when uncertainty in litigation is taken into …
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Politics of Repatriation: Formalizing Indigenous Cultural Property Rights
… it relates to the subject of indigenous cultural rights. Using the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL as models for the repatriation process, I will show the historic political tensions and …
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Property rights in personal information: A South African perspective
… from a different legal perspective, namely, as property rights (or property interests). This dissertation analyses the data protection regulatory framework in South Africa. The dissertation finds that South African data protection legislation affords data subjects a high level of protection that …
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Risk and resilience: Ghanaian (Akan) widows and property rights
… widowhood rites, violations against their property rights and the protective resources they employ to survive. The dissertation also explored how the widows make meaning out of their experiences. Twenty widows were selected. They ranged in age from 30 to 81, rural/urban dwelling, education, …
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Decoding the Bundle of Sticks: Genetic Property Rights, Research & Regulation
… As such, a new form of protection, genetic property rights, has emerged in state legislatures to aid in fostering trust and confidence between the individual and the scientific community. This thesis argues that to prevent genetic discrimination and commercial exploitation, property rights …
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Three Essays on the Land Property Rights Reform in China
… includes three essays exploring topics to land property rights reform in China. In the first chapter, co-authored with Pinghan Liang, we examine the effect of decollectivization reform in rural China after 1978 on cultural public goods provision. A staggered difference-in-differences model that …
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Determinants of Value in Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Property Rights Approach
This study has profound implications for business policy in the pharmaceutical industry. It provides a holistic approach to the impact that firm characteristics have on value created by new drug introduction. Awareness of the relative importance of such characteristics can enable management to …
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Sea level rise and private property rights in shoreline management
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1996.
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Property rights and the investment behavior of U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives
… investment behavior. In this study, the set of property rights governing ownership and control of cooperatives is identified and formally built into a neoclassical model of firm investment. The property rights approach is used to establish the core of a theory of cooperatives. This theory is …
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Property rights in the coal industry: efficiency and legal change
… dissertation is a study of the development of property rights in the coal industry as defined by Federal legislation. Previous analyses have argued that property rights develop efficiently and have employed a neoclassical model to study this development in the political market. This study …
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The political economy of property rights : institutions, interests, and economic prosperity
… An influential literature argues that strong property rights are at the core of modern economic prosperity. Theoretically, property rights reduce the transaction costs of economic exchange and create incentives for innovation and investment. Empirically, there is considerable evidence that …
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The conflict between property rights and environmental rights under constitutional law
… for the international protection of human rights after the Second World War. The protection and the management of the environment has become one of the central questions on a global level and the survival of mankind can only be guaranteed if the international community - as well as the …
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An institutional approach to changes in property rights within China in transition: change of property rights and ownership in high-tech spin-offs in the reform era
… understanding of the change of ownership and property rights in the context of China in transition, with all the political and social implications that the process entails. This study aims both to understand and challenge the basic theoretical underpinnings of conventional property rights …
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