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Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence

Laing, Timothy; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

National-level strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), financed by international …

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Cost-effective payments for reducing emissions from deforestation under uncertainty

Engel, Stefanie; Palmer, Charles; Taschini, Luca; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

for payments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Given that REDD will not represent a …

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External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...

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Estimating the rational expectations model of speculative storage : a Monte Carlo comparison of three simulation estimators

Michaelides, Alexander; Ng, Serena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

The non-negativity constraint on inventories imposed on the rational expectations theory of speculative storage implies that the conditional mean and variance of commodity prices are non-linear in lagged prices and have a kink at a threshold point. In this paper, the structural parameters of...

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Dynamics of indirect land-use change: empirical evidence from Brazil

Palmer, Charles; Di Falco, Salvatore - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The expansion of a given land use may affect deforestation directly if forests are cleared to free land for this use …. Unlike direct land conversion, indirect land-use changes affecting deforestation are not immediately observable. They require …

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Ethanol production, food and forests

Andrade de Sa, Saraly; Palmer, Charles; Engel, Stefanie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper investigates the direct and indirect impacts of ethanol production on land use, deforestation and food … of direct land competition between rival uses increases deforestation and decreases food production. Second, an indirect … displacement of food production across regions, provoked by a shift in the price of food, increases deforestation and reduces the …

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Uncertain emission reductions from forest conservation: REDD in the Bale mountains, Ethiopia

Watson, Charlene; Mourato, Susana; Milner-Gulland, E. J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The environmental integrity of a mechanism rewarding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD …

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Urban social exclusion in transitional China

Li, Bingqin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper demonstrates that urban social exclusion in China does not only include restricted participation by the ¿underclass¿ in urban life, but also the deprivation of certain political, social and economic rights. In addition, the paper describes how the character of urban social exclusion...

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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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Land distribution, incentives and the choice of production techniques in Nicaragua

Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Does the distribution of land rights affect the choice of contractible techniques? I present evidence suggesting that Nicaraguan farmers are more likely to grow effort-intensive crops on owned rather than on rented plots. I consider two theoretical arguments that illustrate why property rights...

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