This dissertation contributes to the literature by providing evidence on the rising global phenomenon of investments in land through in–depth insights obtained from a cross–country study as well as from three case–studies based in sub–Saharan Africa. Chapter 2 contributes to the...

This dissertation investigates the optimal policy for reducing emissions on an aggregate level and in segregated sectors of the economy of the United States and Pakistan using the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model with New Keynesian assumptions. Three types of environmental policies...