Due to rent control, the primary landlord-tenant dilemma prevents landlords from recovering costs of energy-efficiency retrofits, which mainly benefit tenants. This necessitates tenancy law to allocate retrofit and energy costs adequately. We analyze the impact of Germany's current system and...

The rental building sector is plagued by the so-called landlord-tenant-dilemma, i.e. that landlords have no direct financial benefit from modernizations for energy efficiency if the tenant pays the energy bill while tenants have no incentives to save energy if the landlord pays. The primary...

In the absence of land sale, the emerging of land rental market among smallholder farmers in developing countries has important implications on land use efficiency, productivity and poverty reduction. The purpose of this study is to analyze jointly the socio-economic factors undertaking...

In the rental residential building stock, the landlord-tenant-dilemma is a well-known barrier to investments in energy efficiency and exacerbated where rent control limits the possibility to raise rents to finance landlords' investments. Some jurisdictions, like Germany, allow landlords to...

This paper explores the extent of factor misallocation in Vietnam’s cropping sector and how it is related to land rental markets. I distinguish between market transactions (i.e. those that are entitled to some form of compensation) and non-market (i.e. those that are for free and/or among...

Formal written land leasing contracts offer an alternative to land purchase for those farmers wishing to expand their land area and provide greater security relative to informal short-term rental agreements and are particularly important for beginning farmers with resources insufficient to...

In the absence of land sale, the emerging of land rental market among smallholder farmers in developing countries has important implications on land use efficiency, productivity and poverty reduction. The purpose of this study is to analyze jointly the socio-economic factors undertaking...

Although millions of hectares of public land are transferred to private parties each year, often with unsatisfactory results, evidence on mechanisms to achieve better outcomes is scant. This paper analyzes the impact of a 2021 reform in Ukraine that -after earlier digitization efforts did not...

This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find...

This research aims to understand the relationship between socioeconomic factors, production, transparency with religiosity. The effects of socio-economic factors, production, transparency, and religiosity on the sharecropping contract system. Design/methodology/approach: The author has...

In China, the government plays an important role in allocation of land resources, but there is still insufficient understanding of how the government determines spatial allocation of land supply. This paper reveals the Chinese local government’s arrangement strategy of land resources by...

Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems suchas landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the landshares the benefits and risks of the results with tenants. Therefore, land tenure systems differ...

I measure the monetary value of transaction costs associated with China’s rural land rental market, confirming rumors that have appeared in the literature. I demonstrate that the ex-ante bargaining costs associated with contractual formality represent the main transaction costs in the market....

This paper uses extensive micro-level data from Argentine agriculture circa 1880-1914 to explore various hypotheses relating to the supposed unusual and favored position enjoyed by the owner-operated large scale estates (latifundia) on the pampas as compared to small-scale units operated by cash...

We estimate the impact of the tariffs that U.S. export crops face on farmland rental rates. The estimation of the impact of the localized measure on the rents faces two aggregation problems that lead to identification challenges: a) aggregating tariffs across trading partners to obtain...

This J.S.M. thesis examines whether Costa Rican legal rules in the 1970s regulating renters, sharecroppers, and others who farmed land that they did not own were functional or not in promoting development. It considered the history of agricultural activity and pattern of land ownership from the...

The aim of the study is to determine the scale and conditions of agricultural land leases in the case of individual farms and their impact on the area structure of farms, opportunities for the development of lease transactions, mainly between neighbors, as well as difficulties in this segment of...

This study examined the characteristics of successful tenancies for Indigenous people to understand ‘what works’ for successful housing outcomes, including for private and social housing, and across different locations

Research since the 1990s highlights the importance of tenure rights for sustainable natural resource management, and for alleviating poverty and enhancing nutrition and food security for the 3.14 billion rural inhabitants of less-developed countries who rely on forests and agriculture for their...

As the main spatial carrier of land urbanization, the Development Zone (DZ) is the pilot and demonstration area for realizing the economization of intensive land usage. Land leasing is the key to guiding the efficient allocation of DZ land resources. Based on the DZ land leasing systems,...

By browsing the website of Land Matrix, one can measure the extent of land-related large-scale investments in natural resources (LRINRs) and place it on the world map. At the time of writing, the extent of these investments covers an area equal to the surfaces of Spain and Portugal together –...

This paper explores the connection between tenant riskiness, commercial lease length and the term structure of lease contracts. Theory shows that the possibility of default on a long-term lease generates a risk/lease-length connection. The empirical work uses a large CompStak lease dataset...

Since 1993, the Ethiopian government has been using the urban land leasing system to monetize the increase in land value created due to factors other than private investment. Thus, this paper aims to explore and understand whether Bahir Dar city is leveraging the urban land lease system as a...

The relationship between risk and agrarian contract choice is of great importance in contract theory. However, the literature has neglected risk related to violent crimes. This paper investigates the influence of the risk from both violence and disasters on agrarian contract choice by using data...

Using household-level data collected from three provinces in China, this paper investigates the links between land rentals conducted by acquaintances and land fragmentation. The econometric results indicate that the land rentals between acquaintances and those between non-acquaintances have...

Does ownership status of agricultural land determine farmers' soil use behaviour? Why (not)? We investigate this old question using multiple methods and data. We apply econometric analysis to plot-level data to determine whether planting decisions differ between rented and owned plots. In...