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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...
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We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...
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these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual … property rights lead to higher asset values and lower dividend price ratios in ITQ fisheries. This pecuniary effect of property …
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Extending recent results in the industrial organization literature (Carvajal et al. 2013), we de-rive non-parametric tests of behavior consistent with the tragedy of the commons model. Our approach derives testable implications of such behavior under any arbitrarily concave, differentiable...
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this rubric, we discuss research in two areas: those that inform i) benefit cost analysis and ii) conservation of resources …
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Bigeye tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean were perceived as overfished for nearly 20 years, in large part … existing stalemates in this and other fisheries, consideration of Coasean-style approaches is warranted …
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economically efficient extraction paths - is tested empirically with a novel panel data set from global fisheries. Exploiting the …
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and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …
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Might the dollar eventually follow the precedent of the pound and cede its status as leading international reserve currency? Unlike ten years ago, there now exists a credible competitor: the euro. This paper econometrically estimates determinants of the shares of major currencies in the reserve...
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Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more … established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the … invention process promotes technological progress. The gains from pursuing such innovative research paths may, however, be very …
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