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Spontaneous (non)emergence of property rights

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  • Leonid Polishchuk
  • Alexei Savvateev

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The paper analyses preferences of private owners over the degree of property rights protection. It is shown that inequality in resource ownership and/or relative inefficiency of production technologies could make wealthier agents favour less than full protection of property rights. If such agents control the choice of a property rights regime, fully secured property rights will not emerge from the grassroots. This conclusion is consistent with the failure to create an efficient property rights system in Russia.

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  • Leonid Polishchuk & Alexei Savvateev, 2004. "Spontaneous (non)emergence of property rights," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 12(1), pages 103-127, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:etrans:v:12:y:2004:i:1:p:103-127
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0967-0750.2004.00173.x
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