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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are a widely used approach for forest conservation through which people are paid to avoid deforesting land they enroll in the program. We present findings from a randomized trial in Mexico that tested whether a PES contract that requires enrollees to enroll...
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econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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concerns over the extent and rate of biodiversity loss have led to renewed interest in extinction outcomes and speculation …
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The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable … finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity … types of financing is the "monetization" of biodiversity, that is, the extent to which investments in biodiversity can …
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We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …
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We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how …, which depends, among other things, on the distribution of biodiversity losses across ecosystem functions. We discuss how … these fragility measures can help policymakers assess the risks induced by biodiversity loss and prioritize conservation …
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The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We … initiative launched by the Chinese central government in 2017 to enforce biodiversity preservation rules in national nature … reserves. We document that, while improving local biodiversity, the initiative led to a significant increase in bond yields for …
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Protecting species' habitats is the main policy tool employed across the globe to reduce biodiversity losses. These …
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The Amazon rainforests have been undergoing unprecedented levels of human-induced disturbances. In addition to local impacts, such changes are likely to cascade following the eastern-western atmospheric flow generated by trade winds. We propose a model of spatial and temporal interactions...
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An influential explanation for global productivity differences is that frontier technologies are adapted to the high-income countries that develop them and "inappropriate" elsewhere. We study this hypothesis in agriculture using data on novel plant varieties, patents, output, and the global...
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