productivity and are the most competitive on land and labour markets among all farms. However, we also find constant technical … returns to scale across farm types and a layer of smaller family farms that is highly competitive on land markets. It is thus …

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This … article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The …

) interchangeably: the latter account for 84 percent of all farms worldwide, but operate only around 12 percent of all agricultural land …

Structural change in agriculture is characterized by the interdependency of farms' growth decisions due to the limited … availability of the production factor land. This paper adds to the sparse empirical literature on the relation between land market … Administrative Control System (IACS) from 2005 until 2017 for Brandenburg, Germany, we find that about half of the land transactions …