Take What You Can: Property Rights, Contestability and Conflict*
研究巴西亚马逊地区土地产权的可争夺性如何影响当地暴力冲突，发现解决产权模糊可消除本地土地相关暴力，但可能将冲突转移至其他地区。
Weak property rights are strongly associated with underdevelopment, low state capacity and civil conflict. In economic models of conflict, outbreaks of violence require a prize that is both valuable and contestable. This article exploits spatial and temporal variation in the availability of land with title that is contestable by private actors to explore the relationship between (in)secure property rights and civil conflict in the Brazilian Amazon. The results suggest that resolving this contestability of title at the local level could eliminate substantively all local land-related violence but might increase conflict in areas where title remained contestable. \n