We use a unique data set to investigate the economic consequences of banning the harvest and trade of Brazilian mahogany. Because we find strong evidence that mahogany is smuggled out of Brazil as "other tropical species" through formal export mechanisms, we are able to construct a time series...

Over the course of the past decade, significant steps have been taken to empirically link indicators of resource scarcity to changes in economic growth. This paper extends this previous literature in two ways. First, rather than concentrating exclusively on energy, we focus on the technological...