Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/37373 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Developing Countries and Globalization No. G4-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We use newly launched and some never-before analyzed datasets, to assess the recent economic and policy determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. We estimate panel data models for the years between 2002 and 2007 for 368 municipalities in the region using municipality fixed effects and GMM. The results show that recent deforestation is driven by fluctuations in meat and soybean prices, it increases with rural credit availability, and with the size of rural reform settlements, while it decreases with protected areas. Moreover we find that higher presence of the Brazilian environmental police (IBAMA) was effective in reducing deforestation rates.
Subjects: 
Deforestation
Amazon
Economic causes
Brazil
JEL: 
Q56
Q23
R58
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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