The diversity of land markets and regulations in Europe, and (some of) its causes

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 large-scale 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 some hypotheses to explain these differences and draws implications for the role of land institutions in development (with reference to the current debate on large scale land acquisitions).

Publication year:2016

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