Este articulo estudia las dos pesquerías con mayor volumen de desembarques en Chile y que además se caracterizan por enfrentar gran varibilidad en su abundancia. Analiza aspectos productivos que afectan los incentivos para ajustar a la baja el esfuerzo de pesca. Con datos de panel, estima...

This paper examines estimations of technical catch efficiency for a sample of 204 industrial vessels operating at the pelagic grounds of Southern-Central Chile during the 1985-95 period. We consider a Translog stochastic frontier model à-la Battese-Coelli

The main goal of this paper consists in estimating the input parameters of an annual harvest function for the Chilean jack mackerel stock; particularly, the effects of biomass on catch. One of the main problems faced is that the biomass variable is possibly endogenous, which would bias the...