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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765938
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987397
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092012
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Land Grabbing and Ethnic Conflict
Krieger, Tim - 2016
We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984723
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368564
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Land Trade and Development : A Market Design Approach
Bryan, Gharad - 2017
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950313
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How Institutions Shape Land Deals : The Role of Corruption
Bujko, Matthias - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155383
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Knowing the Damages is Not Enough : The General Equilibrium Impacts of Climate Change
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2016
We show that economies may exhibit a strong endogenous macroeconomic adaptation response to climate change. If climate change induces a structural change to the more productive sector, economies can benefit from climate change though productivities in both sectors are reduced. If climate change...
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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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