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this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has affected profitability, but changes in technical efficiency can … on technical efficiency in the trawl fleet, applies stochastic frontier analysis to assess whether technical efficiency … little impact on trip-level technical efficiency in the study fishery. However, departures from the frontier are markedly bi …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional–national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case … of environmental efficiency and on sector specificity. This confirms the usefulness of this method for studying the … environmental economics realm, in order to investigate structural and efficiency factors at the level of within country …
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Much of the job search literature assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when meetings are actually multilateral. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions by presenting an equilibrium job search model with an endogenous number of contacts....
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. Constraining choices increases segregation and affects the stability and efficiency of the final allocation. Remarkably, the …
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Since the seminal contribution of Jackson & Wolinsky 1996 [A Strategic Model of Social and Economic Networks, JET 71, 44-74] it has been widely acknowledged that the formation of social networks exhibits a general conflict between individual strategic behavior and collective outcome. What has...
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We study the stability of social and economic networks when players are farsighted. In particular, we examine whether the networks formed by farsighted players are different from those formed by myopic players. We adopt Herings, Mauleon and Vannetelbosch’s (Games and Economic Behavior,...
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In most multi-species fisheries managed through output controls, total allowable catches (TACs) are set primarily on the basis of biological considerations, usually on a species by species basis. An implicit assumption of management is that fishers are able to adjust their product mix in line...
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global climate change. We employ six criteria to evaluate the policy proposals: environmental outcome, dynamic efficiency … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …
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This paper analyses technical efficiency of local electricity distribution in Italy (1994, 1996) by using both … and/or mergers involving ENEL's units and MUNIs should depend on the varied efficiency records which were detected …
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regions according to the availability of sources. Then the efficiency problem can be solved region by region. …
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