This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture...

Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets; consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues....

Protected areas are increasingly used as a tool to fight against deforestation. This paper presents new evidence on the spillover effects that occur in the decision to deforest and the creation of protected areas in local administrative entities in Brazilian Legal Amazon over the 2001-2011...

L'article propose d'expliquer l'évolution pro-cyclique de l'épargne en période de récession repérée en France. Le cadre théorique est celui de l'épargne de précaution qui est constituée par des ménages prudents pour se prémunir des effets de la nature risquée des revenus du travail....

The forest covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. The other major contribution to government revenues in developing countries comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Using a simple theoretical...

L'objectif de l'article est l'étude théorique du motif d'épargne de précaution dans l'hypothèse d'une substitution imparfaite de la richesse matérielle et de la richesse humaine. Celle-ci résulte dans le modèle, d'une part de l'imperfection du marché du crédit et d'autre part de la...

This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture...

This paper contributes to the controversial literature on the relationship between environmental policies and international trade. It provides new evidence about the effect of a gap in environmental policies between trading partners on trade flow on a sample of developed and developing countries...