| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP9020 |
| DP9020 The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics | |
| Benjamin Olken; Stefanie Sieber; Matthew Hansen; Peter Potapov | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-06-17 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation. We find support for this thesis using a novel satellite-based dataset that tracks annual changes in forest cover across eight years of institutional change in post-Soeharto Indonesia. Increases in the numbers of political jurisdictions are associated with increased deforestation and with lower prices in local wood markets, consistent with a model of Cournot competition between jurisdictions. We also show that illegal logging and rents from unevenly distributed oil and gas revenues are short run substitutes, but this effect disappears over time as political turnover occurs. The results illustrate how incentives faced by local government o¢ cials affect deforestation, and provide an example of how standard economic theories can explain illegal behavior. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Political economy Corruption Deforestation Cournot competition Satellite imagery Environmental monitoring Illegal logging Climate change Biodiversity |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp9020 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537853 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Benjamin Olken,Stefanie Sieber,Matthew Hansen,et al. DP9020 The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics. 2012. |
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