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| Endoh, Masahiro. |
| This paper examines the effects of lobbying activities across international borders, on determining each countrys import tariff in a multi-principal, multi-agent, menu-auction model. Cross-border political donations could promote international policy cooperation because of two of their distinctive characteristics. First, special interest groups use cross-border donations as tools to wield their influence on ruling parties of other countries directly, which promotes efficiency of policy formation. Second, for ruling parties of countries, cross-border donations make them take into account the impact of their policy on other countries, which makes them more sensitive to other countries welfare and, therefore, more cooperative with others. When ruling... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Cross-border donations; Truthful equilibrium; Pareto-efficient tariffs; Public Economics; D72; F13; H21; P48. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28397 |
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| Melnychuk, Volodymyr; Parkhomenko, Sergiy; Lissitsa, Alexej. |
| Land reform started in Ukraine 14 years ago became one of the most important issues in transformation of large state agricultural enterprises into market oriented agricultural enterprises. Significant changes in land use and land ownership has happened as a result of land reform implementation in Ukraine. Namely, state monopoly on land was eliminated, agricultural land was privatized, citizens of Ukraine received land plots in possession, first land transactions have happened at agricultural land market etc. Actual data regarding Ukrainian land relations reformation is systematized in this Discussion paper with especial focus on establishing the prerequisites of further formation and perspective development of the agricultural land market in Ukraine.... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land market reform; Transition; Ukraine; Land Economics/Use; O13; O17; P26; P32; P48; Q15; Q18. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14928 |
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| Goldstein, Markus; Udry, Christopher R.. |
| We examine the impact of ambiguous and contested land rights on investment and productivity in agricultural in Akwapim, Ghana. We show that individuals who hold powerful positions in a local political hierarchy have more secure tenure rights, and that as a consequence they invest more in land fertility and have substantially higher output. The intensity of investments on different plots cultivated by a given individual correspond to that individual's security of tenure over those specific plots, and in turn to the individual's position in the political hierarchy relevant to those specific plots. We interpret these results in the context of a simple model of the political allocation of land rights in local matrilineages. |
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Palavras-chave: Land tenure; Investment; Institutions; Land Economics/Use; O12; O13; O17; P48. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28479 |
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