Alan Leal

Alan
Leal

EconomistInternational trade · Environment · Regional economics

Research on how trade rules, global value chains, and environmental regulation reach Brazilian municipalities and their forests.

Ph.D. in Economic Theory, University of São Paulo. Senior project specialist, FGV Projetos. Founder, Theta Lab.

From land to market

Research

Trade and forests

Deforestation, the EU–Mercosur agreement, and the European deforestation regulation, studied with spatial equilibrium and game-theoretic models.

Dissertation

Municipal trade data

An algorithm that estimates exports by municipality and product, with open code and data.

Code and data

Openness and concentration

How integration into world markets shapes the composition of municipal exports in Brazilian agribusiness.

All research

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Policy