This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow of explaining deforestation in 110 … developed and developing countries. The hypothesis is that differences in deforestation between countries can be attributed to …

alleviation. At the same time, deforestation-related activities, like agricultural expansion, can be seen as relying on natural … between financial development, public spendings and deforestation. Are they substitute or complement? Our econometric analysis … shows that deforestation is positively correlated to access to credit and public spendings, which gives some evidence that …

This paper aims at assessing the determinants of Amazon deforestation, with an emphasis on the role played by off …-farm income. We first present a microeconomic model which relates off-farm income to deforestation patterns. We then test the …-farm income tends to reduce deforestation. This may be explained by the fact that greater off-farm opportunities tends to increase …

financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution … effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period … confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model …

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the … in two steps. First, we assumed that protected areas are created to stop the negative effects of deforestation on … creation of protected areas. Our results show (i) that deforestation activities of neighboring municipalities are complements …

law and regulations and colonial legacies) interact in shaping the current institutional performances on deforestation in … procedures to capture some institutional persistences on deforestation which allow to estimate current institutional effects on … deforestation conditioned to historical variables. In a first time, we run our deforestation model on different samples (under …

seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while … minimising a welfare loss function, we exhibit the potential substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues … and deforestation revenues, which is, as suggested by the theoretical model, even stronger if the endogenous character of …

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the detrimental impact of land tenure insecurity on deforestation in the … Brazilian Amazon. It is related to recent controversies about the detrimental impact of land laws on deforestation, which seem …. A simple model is developed where strategic interactions between farmers lead to excessive deforestation. One of the …

This paper examines the effects of land tenure insecurity originating from land reforms on deforestation in the … and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical … restriction is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the …

depreciation reduces deforestation in relatively developed countries (with GDP per capita greater than $900) whereas it has the …