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Evaluating the New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market for Fisheries Management

Kerr, Suzi; Newell, Richard; Sanchirico, Jim - EconWPA - 2003

fashion and that the markets are relatively efficient. We do not find major changes in participation in these fisheries as a … result of the system. We find evidence that suggests that the ITQ system is improving the profitability of fisheries in New …

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The Determinants of Property Rights In U.S. Marine Fisheries

Kincaid, Joel - EconWPA - 2003

Using a sample of fisheries managed under the Magnuson Act, a probit model of the probability of property rights …

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The Icelandic debate on the case for a fishing fee: A non- technical introduction

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2000

possibilities for growth in those sectors and links their performance to fisheries performance. Then there are arguments for …

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Changing rules for regulation of Icelandic fisheries

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2000

of Icelandic fisheries. None of these reformatory processes can be said to be a replica of any of the other processes. It … common pattern for all the fisheries, however. First of all, serious attempts to reform management practices start when the … participants has been closed. Fourthly, prior to the invention of the ITQ system, prices were used to manage fisheries in Iceland …

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Cost sharing and catch sharing

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 1996

The model developed in this paper attempts to provide an explanation of the fact that Icelandic vessel owners and Icelandic skippers do not share costs of operation of a vessel. In the model a skipper is contracted to take a fishing vessel to the fishing ground. The skipper is remunerated with a...

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BIOECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE HARVEST OF COMPETING SPECIES: A COMMENT

Neugebauer, Tibor - EconWPA - 2005

Flaaten’s (1991) study on competing species conjectures that a higher price (harvesting costs) of one species yields a lower (greater) own stock-size and a greater (lower) stock-size of the competing species. I show both conjectures are wrong.

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Fixed wage or share: Contingent contract renewal and skipper motivation

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 1997

sharing in fisheries. …

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of agricultural development, in horticultural societies, and less frequently among hunter-gatherers and societies at more advanced agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern...

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An interaction model for livestock farming and steppe ecosystem // “Mathematical Modeling of Ecological Systems” Almaty: Daik-Press, 2003. – 160 p. Abstracts. P.26.

Demberel S.; Olenev, Nicholas; Pospelov, Igor - EconWPA - 2003

This work builds a macro model for livestock farming based on aggregation of initial micro description for rational control of total number of vintage livestock (age cohorts). All variety of animal kinds is reduced to one by given recount coefficients. An optimal problem on co-hort total number...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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