Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003
We show that the effect of eviction threats on unobservable investment effort can be positive. Wedemonstrate this …, the landlord can partlysubstitute eviction threats for the crop share as an incentive device. This makes it more … attractive forhim to elicit investment effort. However, there is a direct negative effect of eviction threats on thetenant …