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In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...
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In January 2009 Germany introduced incentive regulation for the electricity distribution sector based on results obtained from econometric and nonparametric benchmarking analysis. One main problem for the regulator in assigning the relative efficiency scores are unobserved firm-specific factors...
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This paper investigates the time-path of efficiency and productivity change in the case of the Romanian cement industry 1966-1989. The analysis is based on different specifications of stochastic frontier models. The efficiency scores and the time paths of efficiency and technical change are...
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This article analyzes the impact of participation in off-farm activities on technical efficiency of maize production in eastern Ethiopia. We combined propensity score matching with a stochastic production frontier model that corrects sample selection bias resulting from unobserved factors that...
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In most multi-species fisheries managed through output controls, total allowable catches (TACs) are set primarily on … resource is reduced. In this paper we show that in the case of multi-species fisheries that exhibit jointness in production … estimation of a multi-output distance function for the UK North Sea beam and otter trawl fisheries, and find that in most cases …
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studies of fisheries management. In this paper an analysis of conditions for generalising the Weitzman result to fisheries … regulate over 55 fisheries while taxes regulate none is surprising. …
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Within fisheries it is well-known that several market failures exist. However, fisheries economists analyse these … fisheries economic model it is shown that it will be in the interest of risk-averse fishermen to report a part of their catch … catches and simulations show that the tax payment is very low. Thus, the tax system may be useful in practical fisheries …
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Fisheries managers in the United States are required to identify and mitigate the adverse impacts of fishing activity …-and-trade system for habitat conservation, individual habitat quotas for fisheries, to achieve habitat conservation and species …
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Supermarkets and high-value exports are currently gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Using a survey of Kenyan vegetable growers...
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Supermarkets are gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on productivity and efficiency have hardly been studied. We use a meta-frontier approach and combine this with propensity...
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