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...

Economic theory and empirical findings suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided has an influence on land markets. Support payments tend to become capitalised into land values to some degree, affecting both the sales and rental prices of land. These effects in turn have a...

Farmland is a specific economic good of almost fundamental importance for the current societies and their development and prosperity perspectives. It underlies the traditional agricultural activity and this process will continue in the foreseeable future, but in the conditions of incessantly...

Against the background of the current discussion about the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, the question of the impact of government support on land prices is crucially important. Validation of the CAP's success also hinges on a proper assessment of a choice of policy...

Large-scale foreign investments in African farmland are rising and may contribute to agricultural productivity growth and economic development. However, host countries sometimes have to wait longer for the economic benefits to arrive than initially expected. In this respect, the timing of...

Empirical studies on farmland rental rates have predominantly concentrated on modelling conditional means using spatial autoregressive models, where a linear functional form between the response and the covariates is usually assumed. However, if it is in fact non-linear, misspecifying the...