This report is a summary of the data contained on the farmland sales portion of the Minnesota Land Economics (MLE) web site (http://landeconomics.umn.edu ) as of February 28, 2025. It is formally reissued each year, as new sales data become available. The present document consists largely of...

Access to land is one of the key factors of farm growth. However, related research is characterised by important gaps, in particular, facing the change over time in the nature and role of drivers of the land market. The objective of this paper is to identify the endogenous and exogenous factors...

This paper provides an overview of the various financial resources that existed in medieval Tirol to meet financial needs, using notary registers and court records from the 14 th century as sources. These provide ample evidence of an active capital and land market in rural areas, which offered...

This study investigates whether corruption differentially affects contracting through auctions and negotiations. Using data on Chinese land-market transactions, where corruption is known to be present, we first show that, on average, it exerts similar effects on transactions carried out via...

In recent years, land prices in Germany have skyrocketed to levels that were hardly thought possible. This has particularly affected prospering cities, where price increases of more than 100% have often been recorded since the turn of the millennium. The underlying causes are highly...

In recent years, land prices in Germany have skyrocketed to levels that were hardly thought possible. This has particularly affected prospering cities, where price increases of more than 100% have often been recorded since the turn of the millennium. The underlying causes are highly...

Much of the land economics literature has largely ignored the spatial nature of competition and related differences between farmland rental and sales markets. In this note we propose a model for price formation in both markets under a spatial competition framework. We demonstrate that price...

This is a plan for the final component of the "Experiments for Development of Climate Smart Agriculture" (SMARTEX), which is a collaborative research and capacity-building program with School of Economics and Business (SEB) at NMBU, Ås, Norway and Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural...

As a response to local environmental regulations, it is prevalent to observe the relocations of polluting firms across cities. We provide the first piece of evidence of the within-city relocations of polluting plants through the spatial distribution of industrial land. We use the unique setting...

We propose an urban land use model to discuss the conversion of customary agricultural land to formal and informal residential land in a developing country city. Because customary land sales are insecure, migrant buyers face a risk of eviction, which affects land markets in non-trivial ways....

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...

Protecting species' habitats is the main policy tool employed across the globe to reduce biodiversity losses. These protections are hypothesized to conflict with private landowners' interests. We study the economic consequences of the most extensive and controversial piece of such environmental...

This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on resource misallocation. Using a unique dataset by matching millions of records of land transaction, administrative records of business registration, and night light intensity data, and adopting a novel causal identification strategy, we...

Using a sample of one million land transactions in China from 2006 to 2013, I find that the average price of publicly auctioned residential land is nine times higher than the price of adjacent local government-designated industrial land. An industry in a city receiving greater industrial land...

This research paper uses a systematic mapping protocol to explore the quantity of existing evidences that deals with large scale land investments and land markets. The results show that between 2010 and 2017, the number of peer-reviewed research articles that deal with large scale land...

This paper aims to examine the relationship between soil quality and farmland prices over time. Soil quality is often used as an explanatory variable for farmland prices in hedonic price models. However, the agricultural land market has shown an enormous price increase over the last decade....

Real estate markets have been all but neglected by historical research. Following a workshop held in Bielefeld in September 2019, this volume seeks to contribute to a better understanding of their characteristics. The introduction starts out with a definition of some key concepts. It then...

The marketization of agricultural land affects the average land productivity not only through improving land allocation efficiency but also through reducing land price under the perfect market. The effect of the improvement of land allocation efficiency on the average land productivity is...

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...

Dieses Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaats Bayern basiert auf einem Fragenkatalog des Bayerischen Landtags zu Entwicklungen und Handlungsoptionen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenmarkt in Bayern. Die Fragen werden aus agrarökonomischer und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beantwortet. Eine...

We present an urban land use model with land registration decisions and potential ethnic matching between buyers and sellers of informal land. We use the model to study the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry regarding risks of contested land...