Traditional productivity measures have been much less prevalent than other measures of economic and biological performance in fisheries economics. It has been increasingly recognized, however, that mod eling and measuring fisheries’ production relationships is central to understanding and...

We provide a new approach for assessing the cost of marginal ecosystem changes and theeffectiveness of agri-environmental schemes. The approach is based on a theoretical andempirical analysis of the bio-economic production interactions between marketed outputs andnon-marketed ecosystem services...

Deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic production frontier (SPF) models are alternative methods for estimating capacity in fisheries. Fishery managers should be aware of likely differences in the capacity estimates obtained from these approaches if such estimates are to be...

Fisheries throughout the world have long been subject to overfishing and excess capacity, which has generated substantial and increasing concern about biological and economic performance ramifications. These problems in part stem from substantial investment in technical improvements to boats and...

When different technologies are present in an industry, assuming a homogeneous technologywill lead to misleading implications about technical change and inefficient policyrecommendations. In this paper a latent class modelling approach and flexible estimation ofthe production structure is used...

In this paper we employ a recently proposed procedure (Dlewert and Morrison[1985]) for adjusting real domestic product and productivity for changes in a country's terms of trade. We apply this procedure to a comparison of two major industrialized countries, the U.S. and Japan. The approach is...

In this paper I provide a production theory-based framework for measuring markups of price over marginal coat, and the effects of cost and demand characteristics on these markups. Price to marginal coat ratios are measured for various Canadian manufacturing industries, and the impacts of...

In this paper we report results of an empirical assessment of the cost reducing impacts of recent dramatic increases in stocks of "high-tech" office and information technology equipment (0) using annual data from various two digit US manufacturing industries over the 1952-1986 time period. While...