By reviewing the current demand literature for fish and meat, it is apparent that several inadequacies arise from the problems of market delineation or aggregation errors. Inappropriate aggregation may lead to biases in price elasticities and associated specification problems with respect to...

This paper tests empirically to what extent the rent in a limited entry and quota managed fishery is capitalized in the value of a vessel license. This is done by comparing the profitability of Norwegian purse seine vessels which received their licenses for free, to the profitability of vessels...

The twofold aim of this article is to model the structure of the Norwegian food farming industry for trout and salmon and to provide estimates for the scale elasticity and substitution possibilities. A translog functional form of the long run cost function is specified and estimated. The...

The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of the cost inefficiency of public regulation of input factors. During the data period used here, individual plants within the Norwegian fish farming industry were regulated in their use of production capacity (pen volume) at different size...

There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the US, UK and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as age-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories rationalizing the...

There has been a remarkable increase in wage inequality in the United States, UK, and many other countries over the past three decades. A significant part of this appears to be within observable groups (such as experience-gender-skill cells). A generally untested implication of many theories...