Download or read book Three Essays in the Economics of Growth with Natural Resources and Environment written by Youssef Boudribila and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics written by Garth Heutel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of the Environment Energy and Externalities written by Ceen-Yenn Cynthia Lin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of the Environment Energy and Externalities written by Ceen-Yenn Cynthia Lawell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Environmental and Resource Economics written by Alexander G. James and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides a new explanation for the observed slow growth of resource-rich economies--a slow-growing resource industry. A dual-sector model illustrates that if a natural-resource industry grows more slowly than the rest of the economy, an increase in resource technology necessarily decreases economic growth. This implies that testing for a resource curse by estimating the conditional relationship between economic growth and resource dependence is insufficient. After neutralizing the confounding effect of a slow-growing natural-resource industry, there is little evidence that a resource curse exists at the country level. This methodology is also applied to the U.S.-county level. The results suggest natural resources act as a catalyst for growth at the sub-national level. Chapter 2 considers the extent to which stated preference surveys suffer from social-pressure bias. I develop a model that predicts social pressure creates greater bias in a referendum relative to a dichotomous-choice mechanism. Experimental evidence supports this theory. Social pressure did not significantly affect response rates in the dichotomous-choice mechanism, whereas as it did in the referendum. This result suggests if one elicits preferences in an environment where subjects experience social pressure, the dichotomous-choice device may be the more reliable elicitation mechanism. Motivated in part by the results given in Chapter 1, Chapter 3 explores how natural-resource wealth may stimulate economic growth. A dynamic growth model suggests income tax rates are decreasing in resource wealth. The model further predicts that decreasing income tax rates stimulates economic growth. U.S.-state data is moderately consistent with this theory. Governments in resource-dependent states tend to have lower income tax rates--suggesting local governments treat resource-based revenue as a substitute for other revenue sources. Examining a cross section of the data suggests decreasing income tax rates stimulates growth. However, consistent with existing literature, a panel of data indicates the relationship between income tax rates and growth is insignificant.

Download or read book Economic Development and the Environment written by Stefanie Sieber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Economics of the Environment written by Subhra Bhattacharjee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Environmental Economics written by Koji Kotani and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fire Carbon Timber and Trees written by Adam Joseph Daigneault and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation incorporates various estimation and modeling techniques to investigate important issues in natural resource and environmental economics. All of the empirical examples are tied to forestry, but the techniques used in this research can be applied to many issues in agricultural, environmental, and development economics. The first essay, Optimal Forest Rotations with Environmental Values and Endogenous Fire Risk, presents an economic model that solves for the optimal economic harvest problem of an even-aged stand with the risk of a forest fire and the potential for carbon sequestration benefits. The model incorporates risk-reducing management practices (thinning) that allow risk and growth to be endogenous and is solved using numerical simulation techniques. Results show that higher carbon prices increase the length of rotations regardless of the probability of fire, that there is an increase in management as the stand approaches economic maturity, and that thinning can provide economical and environmental benefits, even when there is a high probability of fire. The second essay, Estimating the Dynamic Factors of Derived Demand for Regional Softwood Stumpage Markets in the United States, uses two econometric models to differentiate between short-run and long-run responses to market fluctuations to estimate the elasticities of supply and demand for regional softwood stumpage. This approach is not common in the U.S. timber and wood production literature that often assumes a static equilibrium or instantaneous factor adjustment. Results indicate that elasticities fluctuate over time and region, and the differences between short-run and long-run measurements can be large due to the slow adjustment of capital stock. The third essay, Exchange Rates and the Competitiveness of the United States Timber Sector in a Global Economy, uses a dynamic optimization model of global timber markets to examine how different exchange rates affect global timber supply. A baseline and six alternative scenarios are constructed under the assumption that exchange rates affect the cost structure of harvesting and managing forests. Results indicate that the US forestry sector is sensitive to both strong US $ policies and to weak South American currencies, with the strong dollar policy having the largest effect on domestic supply.

Download or read book Environment and Development Economics written by Scott Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems and natural systems. Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited.

Download or read book Three Essays on Natural Resource Abundance Economic Growth and Development written by Jean-Philippe Christian Stijns and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Development and Environmental Economics written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter analyzes whether monetary incentives modify cooperative behavior in activities that have been traditionally uncompensated. In particular, it evaluates whether Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) change cooperation in Mexican common property communities. The analysis explores households' cooperation in forest conservation activities, which for a long time have been done without compensation and are increasingly incentivized under PES. It also explores cooperation in non-forest community activities that remain uncompensated. Findings indicate that cash incentives increase cooperation in activities that are compensated and that the framing of the incentive plays an important role in explaining cooperation in activities that remain uncompensated. Lump-sum transfers without work conditionalities can be more effective than conditional payments to promote cooperation in settings with sanctions for deviant behavior and visible actions. The second chapter simultaneously evaluates the impacts of PES on both avoided deforestation and poverty reduction. For this, it evaluates land cover and wealth impacts of a federal PES program in Mexico. Panel data for program beneficiaries and rejected applicants helps to control for fixed differences and time trends affecting both groups. Findings indicate that the program reduces the expected loss of land cover by 40-51 percent without negatively affecting household wealth. Environmental gains are higher where poverty is low while household gains are higher where deforestation risk is low, illustrating the difficulty of meeting multiple policy goals with one single policy instrument. The third chapter looks at the impacts of increasing female political representation on public policy choices and welfare outcomes. By exploiting the pre-determined position of women in the list of candidates for municipal councilors in Bolivia, together with small margins of difference in the number of votes political parties get, this study uses an innovative regression discontinuity design that is relevant for systems of proportional representation. Findings indicate that women councillors devote more resources to social investments. In particular, they prioritize education, health, and environmental protection giving less attention to infrastructure investments. The impacts of female representation appear only some years after the elections and there is weak evidence on the links between changes in public policy choices and final outcomes.

Download or read book Three essays in environmental and natural resource economics written by Qing Xu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental Economics written by James Bradley Brown and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Environmental and Development Economics written by Chun-Wing Tse and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation studies how environmental shocks, risk attitudes and time preferences affect key decisions made by households which affect their long term well-being.The first chapter studies how natural disasters affect household migration. I separately examine the impact of natural disasters on the tendency of entire households to migrate, as well as for part of the household to split off and migrate. Contrary to conventional wisdom, I find that natural disasters significantly reduce migration rates. There are various channels of impacts: earthquakes reduce household size, earnings and non-business assets, each of which tends to reduce migration rates. Volcanic eruptions on the other hand raise the value of farmland, which, in turn, reduces migration.The second chapter studies the impact of natural disasters on household fertility. I show that natural disasters have a significant negative effect on fertility. The study explores various channels to explain the reduction in number of children born. I discover two possible channels for lower fertility: (1) wealth effect and (2) effect of working women. Natural disasters destroy assets and consequently lower fertility because the decrease in wealth reduces the capacity of parents to have more children. Natural disasters also induce married females to work more and have fewer children.The third chapter examines how intrinsic preferences of risk aversion and impatience estimated from responses to hypothetical choices determine household economic decisions, which in turn affect their future well-being. More risk-averse and impatient households experience lower growth in consumption, income and assets. More risk-averse households are less likely to invest in financial assets and start their own businesses. More impatient households are less likely to purchase insurance and invest in financial assets. The chapter investigates the extent to which these decisions were correlated with growth in consumption, income and assets.