Corruption, trade and resource conversion

被引：95

作者：

Barbier, EB

Damania, R

Léonard, D

机构：

[1] Univ Wyoming, Dept Econ & Finance, Laramie, WY 82071 USA

[2] Univ York, Ctr Environm & Dev Econ, York YO1 5DD, N Yorkshire, England

[3] Univ Adelaide, Sch Econ, Adelaide, SA, Australia

[4] Flinders Univ S Australia, Sch Business Econ, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia

来源：

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT | 2005年 / 50卷 / 02期

关键词：

corruption; developing countries; lobbying; open economy; political economy; resource conversion; resource-trade dependency; terms of trade;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jeem.2004.12.004

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Recent evidence suggests that special interest groups significantly affect tropical deforestation through lobbying. We develop an open-economy model in which resource conversion is determined by a self-interested government that is susceptible to the influences of the political contributions it receives from the profit-maximizing economic agent responsible for land conversion. We investigate the effects of lobbying on the cumulative level of resource conversion and examine how trade policy influences the distortions created by political corruption. We derive testable predictions that are analyzed through a panel analysis of cumulative agricultural land expansion over 1960-99 for low and middle-income tropical countries. Our findings suggest that increased corruption and resource dependency directly promote land conversion, whereas rising terms of trade reduce conversion. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：276 / 299

页数：24