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Property Rights, Political Connections, and Corporate Investment / Meng Miao.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Miao, Meng.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Corporate Governance and Corruption.
- Corruption.
- Investment.
- Land Administration.
- Land Use and Policies.
- Law and Development.
- Political Connnections.
- Political Economy.
- Private Sector Development Law.
- Property Rights.
- Public Sector Development.
- Real and Intellectual Property Law.
- Regulation.
- Regulatory Oversight.
- Urban Economic Development.
- Urban Land Titling.
- Local Subjects:
- Communities and Human Settlements.
- Corporate Governance and Corruption.
- Corruption.
- Investment.
- Land Administration.
- Land Use and Policies.
- Law and Development.
- Political Connnections.
- Political Economy.
- Private Sector Development Law.
- Property Rights.
- Public Sector Development.
- Real and Intellectual Property Law.
- Regulation.
- Regulatory Oversight.
- Urban Economic Development.
- Urban Land Titling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (61 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2019.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Despite the literature on rural land property rights, studies on urban land property rights are rare. This paper studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased investment rate for titling firms, and the positive effect holds only for politically connected firms. The effects are likely causal, because they are more pronounced for firms that are more likely to benefit from strengthened property rights. Connected titling firms experienced fewer disputes than nonconnected titling firms after the program, and the results remain robust when using instrumental variable estimation.
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