Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global … climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in … the United States between 1982 and 1997. We quantify the effects of net returns to alternative land uses on private …

rights in Brazil on the reluctance of landowners to rent because of a fear of expropriation arising from land reform. Since … 1964, the Land Statute in Brazil has targeted rental lands for redistribution. The expropriation of farms, resulting from … land conflicts, is currently at the heart of land reform policies in Brazil. Land conflicts are a means for landless …

erosion. Drifting sand from unprotected fields damaged neighboring farms. Small farmers cultivated more of their land and were …

This paper examines the origins and economic effects of the two dominant land demarcation systems: metes and bounds (MB … human structures and linked to surveys within local political jurisdictions. Under RS land demarcation is governed by a … in the original 13 states, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The RS is found elsewhere under the Land Ordinance of 1785 that …

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation … strong institutional path dependence that can influence transaction costs, the extent of land markets, and the nature of … resource use. The agricultural land institutions that we examine remain in force today, in some cases over 300 years later. In …

requirements increase as an asset's credit becomes impaired. When accounting rules require such an asset's value to be marked … selling the credit-impaired asset even if it has to accept a liquidity discount to do so. Using a sample of 5,014 repeat …