The Enforcement of Property Rights and Underdevelopment /

This paper formalizes the role of legal infrastructure in economic development in a general equilibrium model with endogenously determined property rights enforcement. It illustrates the mutual importance of property rights protection and market production by the model's multiplicity of equilib...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dabla-Norris, Era
Other Authors: Freeman, Scott
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/127
Online Access:Full text available on IMF