Killian Kamkar, Faculty of Economics
The Network Effects of Deforestation in Brazil
In this research, I aim to estimate Brazil's aggregate macroeconomic consequence of agricultural deforestation in the Amazon. By leveraging data on firm-level transactions from the Brazilian Central Bank, I trace the impact of deforestation through all supplier-customer relations between the agricultural sector in the Amazon and the rest of the economy. This is to investigate whether or not deforestation (or conservation) in the Amazon contributes to Brazil's economic development.
