Institutions and Development
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Lee Alston
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Property rights, transaction costs and development
Abstract
This lecture will present the determinants of property rights to land, particularly the economic determinants. It will focus on the impact of property rights to land and will demonstrate the tenancy through endowments and their impact on supervision costs, enforcement costs, risk, agricultural distress and government policies, then it will examine land reform.
