Is there a term structure in land lease rates?
2016 (English)In: European Review of Agricultural Economics, ISSN 0165-1587, E-ISSN 1464-3618, Vol. 43, no 1, p. 165-187Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article applies the concept of a term structure to agricultural land rental prices. Based on theoretical considerations, we develop a hedonic pricing model that allows for different shapes of the term structure curve while controlling for other price-relevant characteristics. We apply this model to land lease contracts in Saxony-Anhalt. We find an upward-sloping term structure during the agricultural price boom in 2007 and 2008, where market participants expected increasing rental prices. For the subsequent years, however, we detect a single-humped term structure. Hence, market participants revised their expectations and assumed a decline of land rental prices in the long term.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2016. Vol. 43, no 1, p. 165-187
Keywords [en]
farmland, hedonic price model, lease rate, privatisation, term structure, agricultural land, agricultural market, agricultural price, model test, price determination, privatization, rental sector, Germany, Saxony-Anhalt
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54526DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbv010ISI: 000370279500007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84962287133OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-54526DiVA, id: diva2:1614428
2021-11-252021-11-252025-10-13Bibliographically approved