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Sea surface temperature and tuna catch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean under climate change
Mediodia, Hanny John; Kahui, Viktoria; Noy, Ilan - 2020
potential to impact tuna fisheries. This paper theoretically models and then applies the production function approach to … fisheries. By considering area, species and fishing methods, we provide spatially and biologically relevant information for the ….e. logarithmic and quadratic) relationship between the SST and the carrying capacity of tuna fisheries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270378
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Optimal fishery with coastal catch
Uecker, Hannes; Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 2016
In many spatial resource models it is assumed that the agent is able to determine the harvesting activity over the complete spatial domain. However, agents frequently have only access to a resource at particular locations at which the moving biomass, such as fish or game, may be caught or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522144
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Property rights to the world's (linear) ocean fisheries in customary international law
Barrett, Scott - 2023
enclosure for nearshore fisheries. For highly migratory and offshore fisheries, enclosure is inefficient, and customary law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315058
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Voodoo versus fishing committees : the role of traditional and contemporary institutions in fischeries management
Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2015
We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional …
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When the state mirrors the family : the design of pension systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2010
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....
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Malthus in the bedroom : birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England
Cinnirella, Francesco; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Weisdorf, Jacob L. - 2012
We question the received wisdom that birth limitation was absent among historical populations before the fertility transition of the late nineteenth-century. Using duration and panel models on family-level data, we find a causal, negative short-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in...
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Income and wealth inequality in America, 1949-2013
Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz; Steins, Ulrike I. - 2017
This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Complementing recent work on top income and wealth...
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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781556
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915
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Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014
This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916