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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

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 …

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Do farmers care about rented land? A multi-method study on land tenure and soil conservation

Leonhardt, Heidi; Salhofer, Klaus; Penker, Marianne - 2018

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...

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Why do farmers care about rented land?

Leonhardt, Heidi; Braito, Michael; Penker, Marianne - 2019

Rental shares of agricultural land are increasing in many countries, as are soil degradation and erosion. Theory suggests that these trends may be correlated, yet empirical findings are ambiguous. This research investigates the relationship between land tenure and farmers' soil management and...

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Preservation of Agricultural Soils with Endogenous Stochastic Degradation

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2016

Soils are often subject to environmental shocks which are caused by negative extern- alities linked to overexploitation. We present a stochastic model of a dynamic agricultural economy where natural disasters are sizeable, multiple, and random. Expansion of agricultural activities raises...

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Testing for adverse selection into private medical insurance

Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2006

We develop a test for adverse selection and use it to examine private health insurance markets. In contrast to earlier papers that consider a purely private system or a system in which private insurance supplements a public system, we focus our attention on a system where privately funded health...

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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse

Schiller, Jörg - 2004

Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …

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Testing canonical tournament theory: On the impact of risk, social preferences and utility structure

Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2012

We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...

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A contract perspective on the international finance facility

Lin, Tun; Mavrotas, George - 2004

The present paper is a first attempt to develop a theoretical model using a short-term vis-à-vis long-term contract framework within which donor countries’ endorsement or rejection decision towards the recently proposed International Finance Facility (IFF) is rationalized. The current foreign...

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Net neutrality and investment incentives

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …

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Tenurial security and agricultural investment: Evidence from Vietnam

Bellemare, Marc F.; Chua, Kenn; Santamaria, Julieth - 2018

unanticipated shock to study the effect of the Land Law of 2013 on the investment behaviour of growers of annual crops. Using a … difference-in-differences design, we find that the Land Law of 2013 is associated with a higher likelihood of investment in … irrigation technology or soil and water conservation, but not other types of investment. Our results are robust to controlling …

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