This paper aims to report the construction process of Environmental Economic Accounts for Water in Brazil and its … effort. It also presents the current stage of construction of the Environmental Economic Accounts for Forest in Brazil. …

This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing … the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the … water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …

This study presents a preliminary estimate of user costs of forestland conversion for agricultural purposes for the … analytical framework adopted here can be extended to incorporate other on-site forest products (rubber, nuts, etc.) and important …

biodiversity, giving particular attention to the exploitation pattern of forest resources in Brazil. Some economic factors cannot …

The costs of wars have been the main driver of public debt in the Western World during the modern era. The late … finances. I provide evidence that the costs of financial crises have increased strongly in the second half of the twentieth … century and that the costs of financial crises grow with the size of the financial sector. In many countries, the rising costs …

, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination country …’s imports. As a result, trade costs have a heterogeneous impact across country pairs, with some trade flows predicted to be zero …