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Big Fish in Thin Markets : Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon
Bartkus, Viva Ona; Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a cooperative intervention which organizes together poor fishing communities in the Amazon -- one of the poorest and most...
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Economic Backwardness and Catching Up : Brazilian Agriculture, 1964–2014
Alston, Lee - 2016
country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … evolved from "backward" to an agricultural powerhouse. Its production and total factor productivity more than doubled. Brazil … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
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Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest
Assunção, Juliano - 2019
deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a 'Priority …
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Tropical Forests, Tipping Points, and the Social Cost of Deforestation
Franklin, Sergio L, Jr - 2017
Recent work has suggested that tropical forest and savanna represent alternative stable states, which are subject to drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies have ignored the likelihood and possible economic...
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Estimating the Spatial Amplification of Damage Caused by Degradation in the Amazon
Araujo, Rafael; Assunção, Juliano J.; Hirota, Marina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Amazon rainforests have been undergoing unprecedented levels of human-induced disturbances. In addition to local impacts, such changes are likely to cascade following the eastern-western atmospheric flow generated by trade winds. We propose a model of spatial and temporal interactions...
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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2011
international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …
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U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts : From Mexico to LTCM
Stulz, Rene M. - 2000
This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock market distinguishes between banks with exposure to a crisis country and other banks. In general, banks with exposures to a crisis country are affected adversely by currency events...
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Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Martins, Bruno … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Most aggregate theories of financial frictions model credit available at a single cost of financing but rationed. However, using a comprehensive firm-level credit registry, we document both high levels and high dispersion in credit spreads to Brazilian firms. We develop a quantitative dynamic...
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The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
Araújo, Aloisio Pessoa de; Ferreira, Rafael; Lagaras, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
cases to courts within judicial districts in the state of Sao Paulo in Brazil to study the effect of pro-labor bias on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510519
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Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
Finan, Frederico S.; Mazzocco, Maurizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
insights into what determines corruption and how to design policy to combat it. We estimate the model using data from Brazil to …
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