On the economic factors of deforestation: What can we learn from quantile analysis?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2427-2434

  Damette, Olivier ^a   Delacote, Philippe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Economic development; Environmental Kuznets Curve; Quantile analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865346402     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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