Mülkiyet hakkı, tarih boyunca vazgeçilmez bir insan hakkı olarak karşımıza çıksa da diğer temel haklar gibi sınırlanması mümkün kılınmıştır. Devlet ve kamu tüzel kişilerinin hizmetlerini yürütürken ortaya çıkan taşınmaz ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak gayesiyle başvurduğu kamulaştırma işlemi de mülkiyet hakkına getirilen en önemli sınırlamaların başında gelmektedir. Kamulaştırma ile sahibi malikinin o...

An important question for international investors concerns the relationship between political institutions and property rights. Yet a debate remains over whether authoritarian institutions promote favorable investment climates. Using data on oil nationalization in a sample of autocracies, this study finds that legislatures are correlated with lower expropriation risk in non-personalist dictator...

Following the notion of skill-biased FDI fl ows from developed to less developed regions, high-skilled workers are likely to benefi t from FDI to a larger extent. They earn a productivity advantage that potentially transfers into a skilled wage premium. This gives rise to distributional confl ict that might turn into heterogeneous attitudes toward FDI infl ows in line with skill. In this paper ...

This paper examines the role that land rights play in the decision to either cultivate or lease a given plot. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997 in rural Thailand, we find that in villages adjacent to forest reserves, where the is a risk of expropriation, plots that are leased are more likely to be titled than those that are self cultivated. In other areas, however, land...

This article considers the global expansion of agrofuels feedstock production from a political economy perspective. It considers and dismisses the environmental and pro-poor developmental justifications attached to agrofuels. To local populations and direct producers, the specific destination of the crop as fuel, food, cosmetics or other final uses in faraway places is probably of less interest...

We propose and investigate a new channel through which the resource curse a stylized fact that countries rich in natural resources grow slower operates. Predatory governments are more likely to expropriate corporate profits in natural resource industries when the price of resources is higher. Corporations whose profits are more dependent on the price of resources can mitigate the risk of exprop...

What do a Canadian ban on the exportation of hazardous wastes, California's remediation requirements for open-pit mines, and the Municipality of Lima's closure of a pasta factory have in common? They are all government measures that have been the subject of investor-state disputes resolved in international investment arbitration. The ability of foreign investors, as private actors in global pol...

This paper sets out why land expropriation is a hidden danger of the response to climate change; that not adequately captured in legislation and risks disproportionately affecting poor. Measures mitigate impacts change are often dependent on states’ access land. The legal mechanism through which states can obtain rights over expropriation, but fair process depends number structural conditions (...