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A shrinkage instrumental variable estimator for large datasets
Carriero, Andrea; Kapetanios, George; Marcellino, … - 2008
This paper proposes and discusses an instrumental variable estimator that can be of particular relevance when many instruments are available. Intuition and recent work (see, e.g., Hahn (2002)) suggest that parsimonious devices used in the construction of the final instruments, may provide...
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The Role of Social Capital and NGOs in Community Based Management of Openwater Inland Fisheries of Bangladesh
Ahmad, Alia - 2003
The aim of the paper is two-fold. It presents an integrated conceptual framework based on the literature on common-pool resource institutions, social capital and NGOs, and secondly, it applies the framework to the case of Bangladesh fisheries sector. Current theoretical and empirical research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208443
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The Big, the Bad and the Average: Hedonic Prices and Inverse Demand for Baltic Cod
Hammarlund, Cecilia - 2013
fishery management. This article presents a hedonic analysis where attribute prices of size and quality ratings are estimated … for the Swedish Baltic Cod Fishery. Using information from 5307 landing days, hedonic inverse demand functions are …
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Time for Fishing: Bargaining Power in the Baltic Swedish Cod Fishery
Blomquist, Johan; Hammarlund, Cecilia; Waldo, Staffan - 2013
How are market conditions affected by a change in fishery regulations? Who benefits and who loses? The paper discusses … the price effects of a reform in the Swedish Baltic cod fishery where vessels using active gear were given annual quotas … between fishers and buyers in the Swedish Baltic cod fishery. …
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Pricing on the fish market: Does size matter?
Sjöberg, Eric - 2014
The importance of fish size for price per kilo is studied using an inverse demand approach. Prices per kilo in different size categories of the same species differ significantly. This means that the average price for a species may change due to e.g., high-grading, growth overfishing or a...
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Promoting organic food products and exports: Status, issues and way forward
Mukherjee, Arpita; Dutta, Souvik; Mendiratta, Souvik; … - 2017
In recent years, the Indian Government has taken several policy initiatives to promote organic farming and organic food exports. Such measures are expected to enrich soil quality; attain sustainable development goals; ensure health and food safety for consumers; increase farmer's income and link...
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The exchange rate susceptibility of European core industries, 1995-2010
Leuwer, David; Süßmuth, Bernd - 2017
This study investigates reactions to real exchange rate changes in the German, French and UK automobile and mechanical engineering sectors using monthly data from 1995 to 2010. Our findings indicate that EUR/USD appreciations hamper exports, but do not necessarily imply an aggravated business...
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Whither new consensus macroeconomics? The role of government and fiscal policy in modern macroeconomics
Fontana, Giuseppe - 2009
In the face of the dramatic economic events of recent months and the inability of academics and policymakers to prevent them, the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM) model has been the subject of several criticisms. This paper considers one of the main criticisms lodged against the NCM model,...
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A bootstrap method for identifying and evaluating a structural vector autoregression
Hoover, Kevin D.; Demiralp, Selva; Perez, Stephen J. - 2006
Graph-theoretic methods of causal search based in the ideas of Pearl (2000), Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (2000), and others have been applied by a number of researchers to economic data, particularly by Swanson and Granger (1997) to the problem of finding a data-based contemporaneous causal...
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The method of moments for multivariate random sums
Javed, Farrukh; Loperfido, Nicola; Mazur, Stepan - 2024
Multivariate random sums appear in many scientific fields, most notably in actuarial science, where they model both the number of claims and their sizes. Unfortunately, they pose severe inferential problems. For example, their density function is analytically intractable, in the general case,...
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