Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...

Abstract The question how much money society should pay to persons without own income (i. e. the social minimum; in Germany called “Regelsatz”) has been debated extensively in Germany. A complicated procedure has been developed to derive the social minimum from the typical consumption of...