This paper investigates the apparent paradox of the mid 2000’s sharp reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian … estimate the effects of well-known drivers in the deforestation process, such as cattle herd and soybean crops, as well as the … effect of the conservation policy. The results suggest that the policy not only had a direct effect of reducing deforestation …

This paper proposes an environmental DSGE model with deforestation of a tropical rain forest. The forest can be used to … the taxation of the deforestation activity. We calibrate the model for the Brazilian economy, and show that it predicts a … procyclical deforestation, and that a more stringent policy reduces the volatility of deforestation. Moreover, technological …

This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with … across monetary policy regimes. I find that imperfect credibility is pronounced during the Volcker Disinflation and to a …

The limited knowledge about the effect of deforestation on human health is an important gap for environmental and …, linking data on deforestation and reportable diseases by municipality and year, covering 773 municipalities in the Amazon … analysis, we found that deforestation has a significant effect on leishmaniasis and malaria: on average, annual increases of 1 …