The Theory of the Second Best implies that any country with less-than-ideal resources can lose from international trade. Recently it has been suggested this means the South (poor countries) are better off suppressing trade with the North, especially trade in natural resource products, since the...

En este trabajo presentamos un modelo en el que las actividades extractivas referidas a un recurso natural renovable, si son abusivas, generan algún tipo de reacción social que modifica las preferencias sociales. Esta modificación es tenida en cuenta por el planificador a la hora de decidir...

The conflict between efficiency and maximization of employment colours all aspects of fisheries management in Canada, including implementation of rights based fisheries management regimes. Even though rights based systems are strongly based on considerations of efficiency, sometimesat the...

The relative merits of different systems of property rights to allocate water amongdifferent extractive uses are evaluated for the case where variability of supply isimportant. Three systems of property rights are considered. In the first, variablesupply is dealt with through the use of water...

Este trabalho analisa a inserção brasileira no mercado internacional de pedraspreciosas, um setor de grande importância para o País, embora ainda pouco estudado. Ametodologia escolhida consiste no cálculo de alguns indicadores de competitividadeinternacional, capazes de evidenciar os...

The evolution of salmon trout farming in Finland provides an interesting example of how different trade policies can affect on the conditions of a small section of a primary industry in the global market. During the protectionist times in the 1980s, Finland became the world-leading producer of...

Most empirical studies of the Resource Curse Hypothesis (RCH) find evidence of a strong negative relationship between a country's natural resource abundance and economic growth. We question the reliability of these findings in relation to the definitions and measures used for both resource...

The aim of this study is to understand long and short-run linkages between economic growth, energy consumption and carbon emission using Tunisian data over the period 1971-2004.Cointegration procedure is used to analyze the time series properties of the series and error-correction terms were...

The aim of this country specific study is tounderstand long and short-run linkages between economicgrowth, energy consumption and CO2 emission using Tunisiandata over the period 1971-2004. Statistical findings indicatethat economic growth, energy consumption and CO2 emissionare related in the...