In this article, we analyze competition for agricultural land as an important, scarce and immobile input. The cost of … cultivating a parcel of land depends strongly on the distance from the farmer to the plot, leading to spatially small land markets … parcel of a prospective buyer farm is an important determinant of which buyer will prevail on the land market. In addition …

After land prices in Germany increased continuously since 2006, policy makers, representatives of farmers' unions, NGOs …, and farmers started and continued to discuss or propose new land market regulations to stop price increases and to protect … particularly smaller farmers. In this paper we analyze different types of regulations for the land rental market with the agent …

The objective of this paper is to review new restrictions imposed on land sales in selected Eastern EU Member States … and to investigate the potential impacts of these restrictions on land prices, transaction distortions, and access to land … measures. We expect market transactions as well as land prices to decline due to reduced competition, causing foregone income …