Swinnen, Johan F. M.; Van Herck, Kristine; Vranken, Liesbet - 2014
The creation of optimal land institutions attracted renewed attention in the 1990s because of its central role in the … largescale land investments in developing countries. This paper documents the existence of large variations in land institutions … (markets and regulation) using current and historical data from Western and Eastern Europe. It then offers explanations for …