There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...

Within fisheries it is well-known that several market failures exist. However, fisheries economists analyse these market failures separately despite the fact that the market failures arise simultaneously. In this paper several market fail-ures that arise simultaneously are analysed. A resource...

In order to promote the sustainable growth of renewable energies in the German heat market, strong political impulses equivalent to the German Renewable Energy Sources Act for the electrical power market and the exemption of biodiesel from the German petroleum tax for the fuel market are...

El texto se articula en tres grandes apartados. En el primero de ellos se justifica el concepto de flotas artesanales con el que se trabaja, distinto al convencional tanto en la practica burocratica como en los analisis economicos. A continuacion, se presentan los principales procesos economicos...

Las políticas basadas en la concesión de subsidios a sectores económicos concretos, y entre ellos al sector pesquero, se han generalizado durante los últimos cincuenta años y a pesar de su dilatada historia, no se ha llegado a alcanzar un consenso sobre su alcance y efectos. El análisis...

This paper explores the policy coherence for development (PCD) dimensions of green growth strategies pursued by OECD member states. The coherence challenge is to design OECD green growth policies in order to maximise the positive synergies and minimise the negatives effects on pro-poor growth in...

The 'human dimension' in fisheries management has historically been incorporated via a specific economic understanding of fisheries wedded to a single-species approach. Meeting the challenge of fisheries, however, will require a broadening of fisheries science towards an ecosystems-based...

The decentralization of resource property rights has become an increasingly popular policy in many natural resource-dependent communities of the developing world. However, the success of this policy approach depends on both collective action and institutionalization. It is therefore important to...

El objetivo de este trabajo es aportar información que nos permita argumentar mejor sobre las cualidades económicas del mecanismo automático de asignación utilizado en el seno de la Unión Europea para repartir los TACs de las diferentes especies y en las distintas zonas en cuotas de pesca...