low credibility due to incorrect opinions, lack of knowledge, and, even worse, manipulation attempts for the benefit of … the authors or content providers. While mechanisms for the support of credibility evaluation in practice have been … credibility by consumers with varying expertise, in the presence of producers who have incentives to manipulate information. …

The article presents a survey of theory concerning the "credibility" and "reputation" issues until the beginning of the … 1990s, when new concept of "central bank independence" emerged. The "credibility problem" described by Kydland and Prescott … so that time inconsistent policies lack credibility. This problem can be analysed in terms of a complete-information game …

This study explores the effect of trade openness on deforestation. Previous studies do not find a clear effect of trade … openness on deforestation. We use updated data on the annual rate of deforestation for 142 countries from 1990 to 2003, treat … an increase in trade openness increases deforestation for non-OECD countries while slowing down deforestation for OECD …

of the agricultural frontier. This paper aims to help this debate by identifying relationship between deforestation and … matrix between deforestation and variables which indicate land use such as planted area with the most important crops, cattle … herd, but there is no correlation between accumulated deforestation and herd evolution in five years. Cattle ranching is …