This thesis consists of five papers dealing with fairly heterogeneous issues, based on the problems or topics analyzed, but also based on the methodologies used to approach them. The overriding…

Read Francisco Alpizar opinion article (Valoración económica de daños ambientales ) in "La Nación " (October 9 th), related to economic valuation of environmental damage (Spanish only). El 17 de…

A framework that can be used to assess the potential impact of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes. Factors that determines the impact of PES are discussed such as additional forest…

En el capítulo trata los experimentos de campo en el marco de la economía del desarrollo. A pesar de que el grueso de nuestra experiencia y la mayoría de nuestros ejemplos provienen de América Latina…

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor…

Read Francisco Alpízar's "Letter from regions on the autumn 2010 Newsletter of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE)

Part of the UNDP Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean: A biodiversity super power. Report aims to inform policy makers and businesses in LAC about the economic risks and opportunities of…

The general objective of the thesis is to analyze the political economy of the regulation of Costa Rica’s transport sector and identify the main opportunities and challenges in designing a more…

Perhaps current prices of fossil fuels are the reflection of the hurricane's eye passing through the global markets. Before exorbitant oil prices again steal all the attention, it is important to…

Policy makers in developing countries need to balance an array of distributional, political, fiscal and environmental goals in deciding whether to raise fuel taxes. Our analysis demonstrates that…