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Big Fish in Thin Markets : Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon
Bartkus, Viva Ona; Brooks, Wyatt; Kaboski, Joseph Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Middlemen are ubiquitous in supply chains. In developing countries they help bring products from remote communities to end markets but may exert strong market power. We study a cooperative intervention which organizes together poor fishing communities in the Amazon -- one of the poorest and most...
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Optimal Environmental Targeting in the Amazon Rainforest
Assunção, Juliano - 2019
This paper sets out an empirically-driven approach for targeting environmental policies optimally in order to combat deforestation. We focus on the Amazon, the world's most extensive rainforest, where Brazil's federal government issued a 'Priority List' of municipalities in 2008, to be targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479588
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Tropical Forests, Tipping Points, and the Social Cost of Deforestation
Franklin, Sergio L, Jr - 2017
Recent work has suggested that tropical forest and savanna represent alternative stable states, which are subject to drastic switches at tipping points, in response to changes in rainfall patterns and other drivers. Deforestation cost studies have ignored the likelihood and possible economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455409
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Estimating the Spatial Amplification of Damage Caused by Degradation in the Amazon
Araujo, Rafael; Assunção, Juliano J.; Hirota, Marina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Amazon rainforests have been undergoing unprecedented levels of human-induced disturbances. In addition to local impacts, such changes are likely to cascade following the eastern-western atmospheric flow generated by trade winds. We propose a model of spatial and temporal interactions...
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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation
Levine, Ross - 2005
"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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When Did Globalization Begin?
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2000
Some world historians attach globalization big bang' significance to 1492 (Christopher Colombus stumbles on the … important events in recorded history. Other world historians insist that globalization stretches back even earlier. There is a … integration of markets between trading economies (e.g., the central manifestation of globalization, commodity price convergence …
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Globalization and International Public Finance
Kremer, Michael - 2000
This paper examines the effect of reduced transaction costs in the international trading of assets on the ability of governments to issue debt. We examine a model in which governments care about the welfare of their citizens, and thus are more inclined to default if a large proportion of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471194
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An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000
This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a...
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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions
Bagwell, Kyle - 1999
To what extent must nations cede control over their economic and social policies if global efficiency is to be achieved in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor, the WTO) in the realm of labor and environmental...
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