Jean-Louis COMBES () (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) Pascale COMBES MOTEL () (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) Alexandru MINEA (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International) P. VILLIEU
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The forest covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. The other major contribution to government revenues in developing countries comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Using a simple theoretical model, we show that tighter monetary policies exert a positive effect on deforestation rates. Consequently, there exists a substitution effect between deforestation rates and seigniorage. Empirical evidence for a panel of developing countries seems to support our theoretical conclusion. This finding sheds some new light on policies that limit seigniorage revenues, as for example IMF's low-inflation recommendations.
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Paper provided by CERDI in its series Working Papers with number
200903.
Length: 28 Date of creation: 2009 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:cdi:wpaper:1025
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