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Article Dans Une Revue Empirical Economics Année : 2012

The Cost of Registering Property: Does Legal Origin Matter?

Mohammad Amin
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There is a large literature that finds that common law countries perform better than civil law countries in various aspects of the institutional environment. This article extends these findings to another dimension of institutional quality--the cost of registering property. In a sample of 121 countries, we find that the cost of registering property is lower by 26 percent of the world average in common law compared with civil law countries, a result largely driven by differences in non-notary costs of registering property. We provide plausible explanations for these findings.

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hal-00966171 , version 1 (26-03-2014)

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Mohammad Amin, Jamal Ibrahim Haidar. The Cost of Registering Property: Does Legal Origin Matter?. Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (3), pp.1035-1050. ⟨10.1007/s00181-011-0479-7⟩. ⟨hal-00966171⟩
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