insecurity proxied by the number of squatters on deforestation is not rejected when estimations are controlled for the possible …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 …

We examine the consequences of land tenure insecurity on economic growth in Brazil. We use an overlapping generations … and a positive one on economic growth. Land tenure insecurity is proxied by the number of squatters. These two …

We examine the consequences of land tenure insecurity on economic growth in Brazil. We use an overlapping generations … number of squatters. These two restrictions are not rejected. JEL Classification: O41, Q15, O54 …

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 … municipalities of the Legal Amazonia controlling for the endogeneity of squatters in a deforestation equation. The result questions …

resource and the strategic interactions between landowners and squatters lead to an over deforestation. The main theoretical … implication is a positive impact of squatters on deforestation. It is successfully tested on a panel data set covering the … municipalities of the Legal Amazonia controlling for the endogeneity of squatters in a deforestation equation. The result questions …

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 …

deforestation rates. Consequently, there exists a substitution effect between deforestation rates and seigniorage. Empirical …

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 …

Cattle Ranching is the main causes of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon region. This paper analyses the proximate … causes of deforestation using linear regressions with panel data. The model evaluates the contribution of the main land uses … for deforestation from 2000 to 2006. Deforestation data from INPE-PRODES, number of heads of cattle, and area of temporary …