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Decade of ITQ Management in Icelandic Fisheries: Consolidation Without Consensus
Eythorsson, Einar - 2000
companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468327
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Theory and Practice of ITQ's in Iceland; Privatisation of Common Fisheries Resources
Eythorsson, Einar - 1995
, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468403
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468491
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A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves
Gerber, L. R.; Beger, M.; McCarthy, M. A.; Possingham, H. P. - 2005
Monitoring of marine reserves has traditionally focused on the task of rejecting the null hypothesis that marine reserves have no impact on the population and community structure of harvested populations. We consider the role of monitoring of marine reserves to gain information needed for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447944
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Determinants of the prevalence of start-ups and high-growth firms
Davidsson, Per; Henrekson, Magnus - 2002
The purpose of this study is to identify key institutional determinants of firm emergence and growth. We do this using various types of data from Sweden. A characterization of a number of institutions and policy measures shows that they are likely to have contributed to an environment that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437728
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Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers and public policy
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter - 2007
Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm's “absorptive capacity” (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical implications of this. We specify a general model of the absorptive capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441551
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R&D spillovers and the case for industrial policy in open economies
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter - 1999
In this paper we consider the case for subsidies towards firms which generate R&D spillovers in open economies. We show that in the presence of strategic behaviour by firms many expected results are overturned. Local R&D spillovers to other domestic firms may justify an R&D tax rather than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441564
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Export specialization and economic growth
Plumper, T; Graff, M - 2001
Traditional economic wisdom claims that - while global economic integration is beneficial for economic performance - a country's trade specialization pattern has no impact on its economic performance. In this paper, we seek to cast doubt on this aspect of mainstream economics using a very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448494
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EU technology transfer to China: the automotive industry as a case study
Zhang, Michael; Taylor, Robert - 2001
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, published by and copyright Routledge.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455170
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"The changing architecture of big business"
Cowles, Maria Green. - 1997
bypass long-established European as well as national industry associations in influencing EU legislation and programs. Thus … large companies not only for influence in EU industrial and regulatory policy, but also for membership and dues. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463744