The present paper studies the land use change impacts of fuels and biofuels. We test the theoretical hypothesis, which … says that changes in fuel prices cause changes in land use both directly and indirectly and, because of price inter …-dependencies, biofuels reinforce the land use change impacts. Our data consists of yearly observations extending from 1950 to 2007 for the US …

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 …

-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not …

sprawl. Land use restrictions and a sluggish housing supply as well as difficulties in making timely and co-ordinated supply …