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Sébastien MARCHAND

Doctorate in Development Economics - Teaching assistant (ATER - full time)

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Contact

Phone: (+33) 4 73 17 74 47

Fax: (+33) 4 73 17 74 28

Email[1]: marchandseb.2@gmail.com
Email[2]: Sebastien.Marchand@u-clermont1.fr
Other Web Page[1]: www.lemonde.fr/sebastien_marchand
Other Web Page[2]: http://ideas.repec.org/f/pma1230.html

Fields of Competence

Thesis Topic

Title: Institutions and Deforestation in developing countries.

Part 1: Institutional persistence and deforestation

1. Forest History: Comparative analysis of French and English Forest History (from the eleventh to the twentieth century). (one chapter)
2. Institutional Persistence: the role of legal and colonial legacies on deforestation, and on the effects of the current institutional performances on deforestation. (three chapters)

Part 2: Demand for good governance and deforestation

1. Demand for Good Governance: the role of environmental demand for good governance (environmental compliance) on governance reforms (supply for good governance) and environmental performances (forest preservation). (with Gaoussou Diarra) (one chapter).

Part 3: Deforestation in Brazil

1. Agricultural technical efficiency and deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon: Effect of agriculutural technical efficiency (estimated from a stochastic production frontier model) on farms deforestation. (one chapter)
2. Ecological Fiscal Incentives and Spatial Strategic Interactions: the Case of the ICMS-E in Parana: Analysis of the efficiency of the ICMS-E through the presence of interactions between municipalities when they set the propensity of their lands under protection (with José Féres and Alexandre Sauquet). (one chapter)

You can download my thesis here.

Other research topics

1. Organic farming in China with Huanxiu Guo
2. Demand for good governance with Gaoussou Diarra and Philippe Delacote
3. Colonial forest law in Africa and British India