Institutional work: how lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania

Urban Land Tenure Policy Options: Titles or Rights?

Land Titles and Conflicts in Guatemala

1 This paper analyzes the impact of formal property rights on plot use and credit access in 20 communities in Guatemala, and shows how these impacts differ depending on the community conflict context. The paper proposes a new instrument based on detailed information about the geographic location of the plots and historical titling processes to address the endogeneity concerns that are common in...

How Land-Use-Transportation Models work

How Land - Use - Transportation Models Work

This working paper serves as an introductory reference for those studying the application of land-use–transportation models to the simulation of urban systems. The paper is by no means comprehensive, but aims to provide the reader with a foundation in the basic principles underlying land-use–transportation models and to set those principles in the context of urban management and urban studies. ...

Land titles , credit markets and wealth distributions

Does the existence of formal title to land and real estate matter for the distribution of wealth? This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impact of land and real estate administration systems across countries. This paper argues that a functioning credit market for secured credit is necessary to realize the full benefits of legal title to private real estate. This paper also ...