Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …

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 …

alleviation. At the same time, deforestation-related activities, like agricultural expansion, can be seen as relying on natural … between financial development, public spendings and deforestation. Are they substitute or complement? Our econometric analysis … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that …

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 …

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 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 …