Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical … model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural … land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) depreciations in the …

This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 … developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to …

seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while … minimising a welfare loss function, we exhibit the potential substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues … and deforestation revenues, which is, as suggested by the theoretical model, even stronger if the endogenous character of …

law and regulations and colonial legacies) interact in shaping the current institutional performances on deforestation in … procedures to capture some institutional persistences on deforestation which allow to estimate current institutional effects on … deforestation conditioned to historical variables. In a first time, we run our deforestation model on different samples (under …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the … Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem …. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation. One of the …

In this paper we aim at theoretically grounding the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation … incomplete information about reference levels of deforestation as well as exogenous implementation and transaction costs, we … compare two types of contracts : a deforestation performance-based contract and a conditional avoided deforestation …

This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon …. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and … fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture lands. Moreover, deforestation is the consequence of strategic …

This paper establishes a link between deforestation and credit cycles in Latin American countries. The latter exhibit … rapid deforestation rates as well as macroeconomic instability that is often rooted in credit booms and crunches episodes …: data available on the last years show a coincidence between higher macroeconomic instability and deforestation increases …

Although widely studied, deforestation remains a topical and typical issue. The relationship between economic … development and deforestation is still at stake. This paper presents a meta-analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies … for deforestation. Using 71 studies, offering 631 estimations, we shed light on why EKC results differ. We investigate the …

financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution … effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period … confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model …