Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world … incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation. We … with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot competition …

spread to the much more populous ASEAN region, China and India. This paper examines how that growth and associated structural …

the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …

A single variable describes, day-by-day, what investors think about the state of Brazil's economy: the Brazilian … markets' assessment of the probability that Brazil might default on its debt obligations. This is mainly because the cost of … domestic interest rates, is thus the necessary first step in order to understand macroeconomic developments in Brazil. The …

We use changes in Brazil’s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and …. We find that an increase in Brazil’s tax on foreign investment in bonds causes investors to significantly decrease their … portfolio allocations to Brazil in both bonds and equities. Investors simultaneously increase allocations to other countries …