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Coasean Approaches to Ending Overfishing : Bigeye Tuna Conservation in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Ovando, Daniel - 2020
existing stalemates in this and other fisheries, consideration of Coasean-style approaches is warranted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481104
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Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management
Anderson, Terry L. - 2010
We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462138
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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453817
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The National Rise in Residential Segregation
Logan, Trevon - 2015
This paper introduces a new measure of residential segregation based on individual-level data. We exploit complete census manuscript files to derive a measure of segregation based upon the racial similarity of next-door neighbors. Our measure allows us to analyze segregation consistently and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457732
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Latin American Inequality : Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling?
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy have held the pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, and that it's the Iberian colonists' fault. Thus, modern analysts see today a more unequal Latin America...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457751
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Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales
Taylor, Michael Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whales (SRKW) have declined by more than 25 percent, and this population appears on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599304
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The Valuation of Fisheries Rights : A Real Options Approach
Pizarro, Jose - 2018
Fisheries. The model includes two sources of uncertainty: the resource biomass and the price of fish, and it can be used by … fisheries to optimally adapt their harvesting strategy to changing conditions in these stochastic variables. The model also … features realistic operational cash flows and fisheries can shutdown and reopen operations. Using publicly available data on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480792
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Why Does the Average Price of Tuna Fall During Lent?
Nevo, Aviv - 2005
For many products the average price paid by consumers falls during periods of high demand. We use information from a large supermarket chain to decompose the decrease in the average price into a substitution effect, due to an increase in the share of cheaper products, and a price reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467106
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International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales
Taylor, Michael Scott; Mayer, Fruzsina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Orcinus Orca is the world's largest predator, and simultaneously a significant tourist asset and cultural icon for much of the Pacific Northwest. In the past two decades, the Southern Resident Killer whale (SRKW) population has declined by more than 25 percent, putting them at risk of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322777
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Credit Markets, Property Rights, and the Commons
Noack, Frederik; Costello, Christopher J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
security of property rights. We test these predictions using data on global fisheries, credit markets, and the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172188