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Deforestation, Production Intensity and Land Use under Insecure Property Rights

Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - CESifo - 2004

management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … to increase deforestation by increasing both land conversion to agriculture and illegal logging. Contrary to current …, and thus deforestation. Confiscation risk decreases timber supply from unsustainable forestry practices while the affect …

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What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris - CESifo - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...

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How Institutions Shape Land Deals: The Role of Corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - CESifo - 2015

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...

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Optimal Forest Management when Logging Damages and Costs Differ between Logging Practices

Indrajaya, Yonky; Werf, Edwin van der; Ierland, Ekko van; … - CESifo - 2014

Papers on optimal harvesting regimes for maximizing land expectation value (LEV) that compare different logging practices often ignore differences in variable costs and in damages on the residual stand between logging practices. We use data on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan...

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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The Impact of Monetary and Commodity Fundamentals, Macro News and Central Bank Communication on the Exchange Rate: Evidence from South Africa

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...

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Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Harstad, Bård; Mideksa, Torben - CESifo - 2015

Motivated by tropical deforestation, we analyze (i) a novel theory of resource extraction, (ii) the optimal …’s presence may induce institutional change. Deforestation can be legal or illegal in the model: each district decides how much to …

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The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Harstad, Bård - CESifo - 2013

A “conservation good” (such as a tropical forest) is owned by a seller who is tempted to consume (or cut), but a buyer benefits more from conservation. The seller does conserve if the buyer is expected to buy, but the buyer is unwilling to pay as long as the seller conserves. This...

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Productivity Response to a Contract Change

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricourt, Francis de - CESifo - 2014

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...

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Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Export Policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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