This paper examines the level and determinants of technical efficiency for a sample of domestic longline fishing vessels operating in Hawaii in 1993. The data on per-trip costs and revenues, fishing targets, vessel ownership, experience and education level of fishermen, vessel size, and vessel...

Much debate and subsequent confusion have recently been generated regarding the economic importance of the longline fisheries for tuna and swordfish in Hawaii. Depending on the methodology employed, the measures of the economic importance of these fisheries to Hawaii can vary significantly. This...

One of the most prominent features of remuneration in Hawaii’s longline fisheriesindustry has been the norm of share contract regimes. This paper investigates whether theuse of the share contract regime is positively correlated to increased economic returns.The principal-agent framework is...

Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is emerging as a promising tool to facilitate market linkages and provide the necessary supports that enable small farms to...

From the farmer's perspective, contract farming provides stable market access, credits, extension services, infrastructure and other benefits, but has drawbacks such as limiting the flexibility of farming and marketing. Based on a survey of rice contract farming for export in Cambodia, this...

The economic behavior of Hawaii's longline fishers was analyzed using a cross-sectional and time-series dataset from 1991 to 1998. Three empirical essays were written analyzing (1) the technological and economic interrelationships in the longline fishery, (2) trip choice behavior, and (3) vessel...

This study analyzes consumer and producer costs and benefits of a modeled price supportprogram for sugar superimposed on the 1974-1981 period, which was essentially freeof effective price support programs and characterized by extreme variations in the U.S. price of domestic sugar. The study...

At the current time, Hawai?i lacks an established set of benchmark estimates on the availability of food for market consumption and its supply sources. This paper serves to fill a persistent gap in the existing literature by providing an estimation framework to map the existing food supply flows...