Arruñada, BenitoUniversitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa2020-05-252020-05-252018-05-01http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44774This paper analyzes social choice with respect to the demarcation of land boundaries, distinguishing between physical and legal demarcation. In contrast with the influential land administration literature and the World Bank s policy guidelines, the analysis supports voluntary instead of mandatory demarcation as well as non-integrated services for land administration. Consistent with these theoretical arguments, the paper empirically verifies that demarcation conflicts play a lesser role in title-, land- and property-related litigation, which seems to increase in all these areas after physical demarcation is made mandatory. Relying on World Bank data, it also observes that linking and merging cadastres and land registries does not correlate with lower transaction costs.application/pdfengL'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative CommonsEvolving practice in land demarcation<resourceType xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" resourceTypeGeneral="Other">info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper</resourceType><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">land</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">property</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">boundaries</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">surveying</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">cadastres</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">land registry</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">land administration.</subject><subject xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3" subjectScheme="keyword">Business Economics and Industrial Organization</subject><rights xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-3">info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</rights>