This paperexplores theconsequences of improvingpropertyrights tofacilitate the use of fixed assets as collateral, popularly attributed to the influential policy advocate Hernando de Soto. We use an equilibrium model of a credit market with moral hazardtocharacterizethetheoretical effects andalsodevelopa quantitative analysis using data from Sri Lanka. We show that the effects are likely to be n...

Epithelial proliferative lesions of the appendix are rare and have never been studied cytogenetically. We present the chromosomal banding analysis of four successfully short-term cultured samples from pseudomyxoma peritonei lesions originating from a cystadenoma of the appendix. All four sample contained clonal chromosome abnormalities. In three of them, the clone 46,XX,der(6)?del(6)(q16q21)?de...

This paper contributes to the debate over land tenure in rural China by conceptualizing and measuring multiple dimensions of property rights in a way which elucidates the competing interests which are affected by the property rights regime. Utilizing a unique village level data set on property rights, this paper argues that the regional and temporal variation in rural property rights signals a ...

This paper constructs a dynamic game model to address the following groundwater management problem, where quantity and quality of the water are taken into account. A group of farmers overexploits a groundwater stock and causes excessive pollution. A water agency wishes to regulate the farmers' activity, in order to reach a minimum level of quantity and quality but is subject to a budget constra...

In this paper we present a methodology within the multi-criteria paradigm to assist policy decision-making on water management for irrigation. In order to predict farmers’ response to policy changes a separate multi-attribute utility function for each homogeneous group, attained applying cluster analysis, is elicited. The results of several empirical applications of this methodology suggest an ...

Article history: Received 5 August 2009 Available online 23 November 2010 In this paper we apply a model of early industrialization to the case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870–1940. We show how differences in agricultural institutions may have produced different development paths in two countries which were similar under many respects. While in New Zealand the active role of the Crown in reg...

This study seeks to examine the interface potentially holding between footing and speech acts performed in main Qurʼanic dialogue of Allah Iblīs (Q15:32-43). The utilizes a synthetic approach that combines two theoretical strands: (i) Erving Goffman’s (1979, 1981) interaction model as orchestrated by speaker roles animator, author, principal; (ii) Searle’s (1976) classification scheme illocutio...

Lysosomal free sialic acid storage diseases are rare inborn errors of metabolism with autosomal recessive inheritance that are caused by a defect in the lysosomal membrane-specific carrier for sialic acid and uronic acids (1). The gene, SLC17A5 (MIM 604322), localized on chromosome 6q14-q15 (2), has recently been identified and sequenced (3). The defective egress of free sialic acid from the ly...