Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126495 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 355
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
The creation of optimal land institutions attracted renewed attention in the 1990s because of its central role in the transition process in former Communist countries in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and more recently because of largescale land investments in developing countries. This paper documents the existence of large variations in land institutions (markets and regulation) using current and historical data from Western and Eastern Europe. It then offers explanations for these differences and draws implications for the role and optimality of land institutions in development (with special reference to the current debate on large scale land acquisitions).
Subjects: 
institutions
regulation
land markets
Europe
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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