Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31857 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0522
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
Markets for complex, multi-faceted goods normally require a complex institutional framework to function properly, i.e., to lead to patterns of outcomes that are deemed acceptable by the individuals involved. This paper examines the institutional underpinnings of the market for urban land use rights, taking both German and U.S. public and private land use law as a case in point. Apart from efficiency considerations that have been discussed in the literature, the individuals' preferences regarding the fairness of (i) the contents of urban land use rights and (ii) the distribution of costs and benefits induced by innovative land uses have been largely neglected. It is argued that investigating the impact of these preferences (and the underlying informal fairness norms) on the legal treatment of land use rights provides a key opportunity to construct an alternative Law & Economics approach that is compatible with an evolutionary perspective on economic land use decisions.
Subjects: 
externalities
takings
land use law
distributive fairness
procedural fairness
JEL: 
K11
R13
R14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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