This paper examines the effects of deforestation on the welfare of rural communities in the Congo Basin. Using moment conditions of agricultural and forest exploitations, findings indicate deforestation significantly improves welfare both at overall-rural and agricultural household per capita...

Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three moment...

Este documento presenta evidencias de que las características ambientales, la infraestructura vial, los derechos propietarios y los aspectos demográficos son determinantes de la deforestación en Bolivia. Para ello, se realizaron estimaciones por mínimos cuadrados ordinarios y posteriormente...

Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of US Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales used for estimation, and when we predict...

This paper extends the estimation of price relationships in wood processing and empirical assessment of asymmetric price transmission by incorporating time lags in both explanatory and dependent variables. Each of the models developed and estimated in this article reveals the existence of...

Long-term effects of policies to induce carbon storage in forests were projected with the Global Forest Products Model. Offset payments for carbon sequestered in forest biomass of $15–$50/t CO2e applied in all countries increased CO2 sequestration in world forests by 5–14 billion tons from...

Desde mediados del siglo XX, ha aumentado la importancia del tapón de corcho en la industria corchera, porque el corcho ha sido sustituido en muchas de sus anteriores aplicaciones por otros materiales, principalmente sintéticos. Así que actualmente la industria corchera está muy cerca de ser...

This paper studies how bidding strategies and auction outcomes are affected by downstream competition, particularly for USFS timber auctions. This is done by extending the auction estimation literature to a model where outside competition affects bidding behavior in that bidders are then not...

This report provides a snapshot of the Irish Print and Packaging industry’s view of its own performance. It examines the activities undertaken by the sector and the issues it is currently facing and where possible provides the basis of comparison with a similar study undertaken in 2005

Can courts cause dramatic policy change? And if courts can, are there institutional features of courts and/or conditions under which they operate that make them particularly able and likely to change policy dramatically? Public law scholars would generally answer “no” to the first question,...