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Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies

Kerr, Suzi; Hendy, Joanna; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, … - EconWPA - 2004

Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer. Many policymakers and negotiators are skeptical of our...

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The Strong Sequential Core in a Dynamic Exchange Economy

Predtetchinski, Arkadi; Herings, P. Jean-Jacques; … - EconWPA - 2002

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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …

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Stochastic Dominance Portfolio Analysis of Forestry Assets

Heikkinen, V.-P.; Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2002

We consider the forestry decision-making and harvesting problem from the perspective of financial portfolio management, where harvestable forest stands constitute one of the liquid assets of the portfolio. Using real data from Finnish mixed borealis forests and from the Helsinki stock exchange,...

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ECONOMIC CAUSES OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION – A GLOBAL EMPIRICAL APPLICATION

Scrieciu, Silviu S. - EconWPA - 2004

The paper investigates the complex system of causes affecting tropical deforestation at a worldwide level. There is no generally accepted theory in the deforestation literature to indicate which variables should be included in a model of deforestation at an aggregate global level. The paper...

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation and biodiversity loss is explored. Secondly, some...

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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en

Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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Carbon Dynamics and Land-use Choices: Building a Regional-scale Multidisciplinary Model

Kerr, Suzi; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, Alexander; Hughes, Flint - EconWPA - 2003

Policy enabling tropical forests to approach their potential contribution to global-climate-change mitigation requires forecasts of land use and carbon storage on a large scale over long periods. In this paper, we present an integrated modeling methodology that addresses these needs. We model...

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Irreversible investment under interest rate variability: new results

Alvarez, Luis H.R.; Koskela, Erkki - EconWPA - 2004

interest rate uncertainty is shown to decelerate rational investment demand by raising both the required exercise premium of … volatility strengthens the negative impact of interest rate uncertainty and vice versa. …

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Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - EconWPA - 2003

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