The Informal City

Selod, Harris ; Tobin, Lara

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: LAND MARKETS;    LAND USE;    PROPERTY RIGHTS;    LAND ADMINISTRATION;    TENURE SECURITY;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-8482
RP-ID  :  WPS8482

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper proposes a theory of urbanland use with endogenous property rights. Sociallyheterogeneous households compete for where to live in thecity and choose the type of property rights they purchasefrom a land administration which collects fees ininequitable ways. The model generates predictions regardingsorting and spatial patterns of informality consistent withdeveloping country cities. It also highlights non-trivialeffects of land administration reforms in the presence ofpecuniary externalities, possibly explaining why elites mayhave an interest in maintaining inequitable landadministrations that insulate them from competition for landfrom the rest of the population.