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Optimal Vessel Quotas and Capacity of a Danish Trawler Fleet Segment: A Dual Approach
Hoff, Ayoe; Frost, Hans - 2007
In the period of investigation, 1995–2000, the Danish fishery for species meant for human consumption was managed by individual non-transferable vessel quotas, while the fishery for species meant for fishmeal and fish oil was subject to a total quota. The revenues of the fishermen targeting...
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Yield and Area Elasticities. A Cost Function Approach with Uncertainty
Rosas, Francisco; Hayes, Dermot J. - 2010
prices based on a theoretically consistent model. The model uses a duality theory approach for the multi-output and multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446115
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Discussão dos retornos à escala nos contextos das funções de produção e de custo
Alves, Eliseu - 2007
form in the sense that it can be deduced from the axioms of production theory. But the articles points out the plausibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446476
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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin
Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010
Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...
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Cooperation Costs and the Economics of Intergovernmental Partnerships
Adelaja, Soji; Racevskis, Laila A. - 2005
Increasingly, state and local governments are promoting intergovernmental coordination, cooperation, and/or outright consolidation (3Cs) based on the perceived economies of scale advantages of such joint actions. However, the growing public finance and political science literature on...
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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons
Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993
"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468330
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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001
"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis
Dudley, Dean - 1993
"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...
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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?
Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002
"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …
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