One of the most prominent features of remuneration in Hawaii’s longline fisheriesindustry has been the norm of share contract regimes. This paper investigates whether theuse of the share contract regime is positively correlated to increased economic returns.The principal-agent framework is...

The economic behavior of Hawaii's longline fishers was analyzed using a cross-sectional and time-series dataset from 1991 to 1998. Three empirical essays were written analyzing (1) the technological and economic interrelationships in the longline fishery, (2) trip choice behavior, and (3) vessel...

This study analyzes consumer and producer costs and benefits of a modeled price supportprogram for sugar superimposed on the 1974-1981 period, which was essentially freeof effective price support programs and characterized by extreme variations in the U.S. price of domestic sugar. The study...