Titre : | Deforestation and the Real Exchange Rate (2008) |
Auteurs : | Jean-Louis Arcand ; Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney ; Patrick Guillaumont |
Type de document : | Article : Revues - Articles |
Dans : | Journal of Development Economics (Vol. 86 N°2, June 2008) |
Article en page(s) : | pp. 242-262 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
[Eurovoc] AGRICULTURE, SYLVICULTURE ET PÊCHE > exploitation de la terre agricole > utilisation des terres [Eurovoc] ÉCONOMIE > analyse économique > analyse économique > économétrie > modèle économique [Eurovoc] ENVIRONNEMENT > détérioration de l'environnement > dégradation de l'environnement > déboisement [Eurovoc] FINANCES > économie monétaire > politique des changes > taux de change [JEL] F - Économie internationale > F3 - Finances internationales > F31 - Taux de change |
Tags : | deforestation ; real effective exchange rate ; institutions |
Résumé : | Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) a depreciation in the real exchange rate increases deforestation in developing countries whereas the opposite obtains in developed countries; (iii) paradoxically, better institutions may exacerbate the deleterious impact of a depreciation in developing countries. These hypotheses are tested on an annual sample of 101 countries over the 1961-1988 period, and are not rejected by the data. Our results suggest that short-term macroeconomic policy, institutional factors, and the interaction between the two, are potentially important determinants of environmental outcomes. |
Doi : | DOI : 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.02.004 |
Axe de recherche : | Trajectoires de développement durable |
En ligne : | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00274384 |