Tan, Rong; Qu, Futian; Heerink, Nico; Mettepenningen, Evy - In: China Economic Review 22 (2011) 4, pp. 474-484
The current system of converting farmland to urban land use in China can be characterized as a hybrid system that combines government controls with market-based transfers. In this paper we argue that this hybrid governance structure causes an over-conversion of farmland from the rural to the...