Trade Restrictions on Farmland - a Utilitarian Analysis of Paternalistic Laws

Stefan Mann ()

No 30709, Working Papers from Agroscope Reckenholz Tanikon (ART)

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to approach the normative analysis of paternalistic laws. Our examples are restrictions on trade in agricultural land: a quantitative restriction in Switzerland and Germany and a fixed price range for lease land in France. We develop a normative framework from the literature and apply it to the restrictions. It shows that the quantitative restrictions apparently rest on a misunderstanding of structural change and can therefore hardly be justified, whereas the price allegation protects from information asymmetries which would lead to unfair results. Hence it can be shown that a normative analysis of paternalistic interventions can produce meaningful results.

Keywords: International; Relations/Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.30709

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