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Forest fires : why the large year-to-year variation in forests burned?
Apt, Jay; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - 2023
Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific … understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … first unified treatment of climatic factors and human activities that affect forest area burned. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391323
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Taxation and rotation age under stochastic forest stand value
Alvarez, Luis H. R.; Koskela, Erkki - 2004
, cash flow tax and tax on interest rate earnings on the privately optimal rotation period when forest value growth is … stochastic and forest owners are either risk neutral or risk averse. In the case of risk-neutral forest owner higher yield tax … function of the yield tax and the forest value volatility increases more rapidly under risk neutrality than under risk aversion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449344
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Optimal forest taxation under private and social amenity valuation
Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2001
This paper analyzes socially optimal forest taxation when the government has a binding tax revenue requirement. In the … Faustmann model the optimal design of forest taxation consists of non-distortionary taxes, such as site productivity tax, site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397791
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25 years of European merger control
Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2020
We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the 1990-2014 period, we evaluate how consistently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200178
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The effect of forest access on the market for fuelwood in India
Bošković, Branko; Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; … - 2018
located farther away from the forest spend more time collecting. Distant households are likely to sell more fuelwood and buy … exacerbate forest degradation. …
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Optimal forest management when logging damages and costs differ between logging practices
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ierland, Ekko C. van - 2014
on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan to study optimal harvest regimes for Conventional Logging (CL … under sustainable forest management (RIL). According to our detailed data, RIL has higher fixed costs but lower variable …
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny … by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … private forest plantations and households in villages adjacent to a state-owned plantation. We use survey data from 338 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735970
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Dynamic causal forests, with an application to payroll tax incidence in Norway
Gavrilova, Evelina; Langørgen, Audun; Zoutman, Floris T. - 2023
panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) method, extends the … causal-forest method of Wager and Athey (2018) by allowing for the estimation of dynamic treatment effects in a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014307152
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Non-cooperative and cooperative policy reforms under uncertainty and spillovers
Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2017
When countries need to implement costly economic policy reforms, these often imply uncertainties about their effectiveness for the home country and their spillovers to other countries. We develop a model to show that under these circumstances countries implement too few or too many policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602603
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Optimal pollution control in a mixed oligopoly with research spillovers
Haruna, Shoji; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2018
certain conditions, the optimal pollution tax is positive; otherwise, the tax reverts to a subsidy. Comparing mixed and …
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