让我们打破法律:加纳住房市场的交易成本和预付租金

Q2 Social Sciences

Global Journal of Comparative Law Pub Date : 2018-08-14 DOI:10.1163/2211906X-00702005

K. O. Kufuor

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摘要

加纳私人租赁住房市场的一个特点是，房东通常在签署租赁协议之前要求预付租金，在某些情况下，最长可达5年。这违反了1963年的《租金法》，最近的举措正朝着解决这一问题的方向发展，以保护潜在租户。然而，尽管预付租金是一种经济负担，但它被住房市场的交易成本所抵消。因此，在本文中，受新制度经济学的影响，我认为租户和房东有可能在法律的阴影之外继续讨价还价，以达成互利的租赁协议。

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Let’s Break the Law: Transaction Costs and Advance Rent Deposits in Ghana’s Housing Market

A feature of the Ghana private rental accommodation market is that landlords usually demand advance rent of, in some instances, up to 5 years before signing a tenancy agreement. This is in violation of the 1963 Rent Act and recent initiatives are in the direction of curing this problem in the interest of protecting prospective tenants. However while advance rent is a financial burden this is offset by transaction costs in the housing market. Hence, in this paper and influenced by New Institutional Economics, I argue that it is possible for tenants and landlords to continue to bargain outside the shadow of the law to secure mutually beneficial tenancy agreements.

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期刊介绍： The Global Journal of Comparative Law is a peer reviewed periodical that provides a dynamic platform for the dissemination of ideas on comparative law and reports on developments in the field of comparative law from all parts of the world. In our contemporary globalized world, it is almost impossible to isolate developments in the law in one jurisdiction or society from another. At the same time, what is traditionally called comparative law is increasingly subsumed under aspects of International Law. The Global Journal of Comparative Law therefore aims to maintain the discipline of comparative legal studies as vigorous and dynamic by deepening the space for comparative work in its transnational context.