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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an … independently. Data from an Alaska commercial salmon fishery confirm our model's key predictions, that the co-op would facilitate … the co-op's demise, an outcome also predicted by our model. Our analysis provides guidance for designing fishery reform …

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Lobbyism and Climate Change in Fisheries: A Political Support Function Approach

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2005

This paper seeks to investigate the following issues: What is the resulting out-come, when regulation is determined by interest groups that compete for influ-ence over the regulatory process? Given this, can we predict how climate change related changes in the underlying biological factors will...

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The Effect of Climate Change on the Probability of Conservation: Fisheries Regulation as a Policy Contest

Brandt, Urs Steiner - 2006

This paper considers the policy outcome of a contest between two opposing in-terest groups: the incumbent fishermen and a group of conservationalists. The objective of the fishermen is to maximize profit, and they are (partly) concerned over future profitability as well, while the...

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A Coalition Game of the Baltic Sea Cod Fishery

Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk - 2004

The paper sets up a discrete-time, deterministic, coalition game model among the major agents exploiting the cod stock in Baltic Sea. The characteristic func-tion is constructed and the Shapley value and the nucleolus are used as one-point solution concepts. The paper identifies the problem with...

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