Browsing NHH Brage by Subject "legal origins"
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Property rights and economic growth: evidence from a natural experiment
(Discussion Papers;20/2011, Working paper, 2011-11)In 1795 the British took control of the Cape colony (South Africa) from the Dutch; and in 1843 they exogenously changed the legal basis of landholding, giving more secure property rights to landholders. Since endowments ...