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Encouraging policy change for sustainable and resilient fisheries

Delpeuch, Claire; Hutniczak, Barbara - 2019

How can policy makers successfully implement the policy changes needed to achieve greater economic, social, and environmental sustainability and resilience? This report combines lessons from the available literature, discussions with experts and stakeholders, as well as information on past...

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Herding with and without payoff externalities : an internet experiment

Drehman, Mathias; Oechssler, Joerg; Roider, Andreas - 2005

experiment with more than 6000 subjects, including a subsample of 267 consultants from an international consulting firm. We also …

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Rage against the machines

Dürsch, Peter; Kolb, Albert; Oechssler, Joerg; … - 2005

We use an experiment to explore how subjects learn to play against computers which are programmed to follow one of a … and that all learning algorithms are subject to exploitation with the notable exception of imitation. The experiment was …

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Imitation : theory and experimental evidence

Apesteguia, Jose; Huck, Steffen; Oechssler, Joerg - 2005

laboratory experiment we test the different theories by systematically varying information conditions. We find significant …

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Closing gaps in national regulations against IUU fishing

Hutniczak, Barbara; Delpeuch, Claire; Leroy, Antonia - 2019

This paper identifies the progress achieved by individual countries in implementing internationally recognised best policies and practices against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing since 2005. It aims to inspire and guide governments and all stakeholders in the fisheries sector...

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Intensifying the fight against IUU fishing at the regional level

Hutniczak, Barbara; Delpeuch, Claire; Leroy, Antonia - 2019

Regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) are the primary mechanism for co-operation between fishing countries and coastal states to ensure sustainable fishing globally. This paper aims to inspire and guide RFMO secretariats and member countries in how to focus their effort and...

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Policy challenges for agriculture and rural areas in Norway

Hemmings, Philip J. - 2016

Norwegian policy gives high priority to supporting rural communities, with support for agriculture receiving particular attention. It is broadly successful in terms of maintaining rural communities, and urban-rural gaps in a range of well-being indicators are comparatively narrow. However, the...

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Relative effects of fisheries support policies

Martini, Roger; Innes, James - 2018

eliminate, these impacts. Supports based on reducing the cost of inputs purchased by fishers provoke the greatest increase in … 10% of their value in actual benefits to fishers in some cases, making them the least effective means of transferring … income to fishers of those evaluated. Payments based on improving fishers’ business operations provided the greatest benefit …

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Red tape and administrative burden in aquaculture licensing

Innes, James; Martini, Roger; Leroy, Antonia - 2017

Concern that rates of aquaculture growth in OECD countries are below potential has resulted in environmentally sustainable production increase becoming a priority for policy makers. Growth in aquaculture production can be influenced by many factors. This report looks at the attributes of...

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Electoral cycles in macroprudential regulation

Müller, Karsten - 2019

Do politics matter for macroprudential policy? I show that changes to macroprudential regulation exhibit a predictable electoral cycle in the run-up to 221 elections across 58 countries from 2000 through 2014. Policies restricting mortgages and consumer credit are systematically less likely to...

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