This paper focuses on the issue of limited financial market participation and determines a lower bound on the level of fixed transaction costs that are required to reconcile observed portfolio choices with asset returns within an isoelastic utility framework. The bound is determined from the set...

In dieser Studie wird die Zahl und die bewirtschaftete Fläche landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen, deren Kapitalanteile mehrheitlich in der Hand überregional aktiver Investoren sind, sowie die Zahl von Übernahmen durch solche Investoren im Zeitraum 2007 bis 2014 in vier ostdeutschen...

Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...

This article evaluates the recent evolution of farm structure in Kazakhstan's grain region against the reform objectives of the 1990s and the family farm theory that underpinned the latter. In the study region, super-large agroholdings, large-scale enterprises and smaller individual farms...

Die Bodenmarktstatistiken - das sind die Statistiken der Kaufwerte für Bauland und der Kaufwerte für landwirtschaftliche Grundstücke - bestehen seit mehreren Jahrzehnten. Neue europäische Anforderungen im Agrarstatistiksektor haben zu einer Überarbeitung sowohl der Abgrenzungen als auch der...

Anknüpfend an eine Untersuchung aus dem Jahr 2015 werden die Zahl und die bewirtschaftete Fläche landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen, deren Kapitalanteile mehrheitlich in der Hand überregional aktiver Investoren sind, sowie die Zahl von Übernahmen durch solche Investoren im Zeitraum 2007 bis...

The article analyses influences on the design of land rental contracts in Poland. Attention is paid to the effect of both the properties of the transaction as identified in Transaction Cost Economics (asset-specificity, uncertainty, frequency) and the features of the institutional environment...

This paper uses a model with transaction costs and imperfect competition in the land market to analyze the efficiency and welfare effects of land reforms. We show that removing only one imperfection may have very different efficiency and welfare effects than would otherwise result from reforms...

Cities are not affected by global climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol – however many of them engage in voluntary activities. This paper analyses how communities in general and especially the city of Hamburg can contribute to global climate protection in their citypartnerships according to...