Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269918 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2209
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
In this article, we analyze competition for agricultural land as an important, scarce and immobile input. The cost of cultivating a parcel of land depends strongly on the distance from the farmer to the plot, leading to spatially small land markets. To investigate this issue, we are able to use extremely rich datasets, and combine information on both farms and their cultivated plots (including their exact locations) for virtually all farms in Austria for a five-year period. When analyzing the takeover of parcels from farms leaving the market, we find that the distance between an exiting farm's plot and the closest parcel of a prospective buyer farm is an important determinant of which buyer will prevail on the land market. In addition, the proximity between the farmsteads of the exiting farm and a prospective buyer farm is also important. The results suggest (i) that agricultural land markets are indeed very small and (ii) that information frictions are important in this market.
Subjects: 
spatial competition
land market
farm exit
spatial data
JEL: 
L13
L25
Q12
R14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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