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forms. Then the method is used to test separability of the profit function
using experimental production data. The hypothesis that the profit function
was separable (plant nutrients from spacing unit costs) could not be rejected.
This implies that an aggregate price index for nutrients is appropriate.
Pope, Rulon D. and Rod F. Ziemer (1984). "Stochastic Efficiency,
Normality, and Sampling Errors in Agricultural Risk Analysis."
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 66(1):31-40.
This paper examines the power of tests for efficiency. The relationship
between sample size, parameter values, and the family of probability
distributions is stressed. Some findings are that the probability of
correctly ranking distributions is frequently very low regardless of sample
size. It is generally lowest as distributional parameters (such as the means)
of the two distributions being compared are of similar magnitudes. Further,
the empirical distribution function performs extremely well as compared to
maximum likelihood estimators.
Porter, Gareth (1997). "The Euro-African Fishing Agreements:
Subsidizing Overfishing in African Waters." Visiting Scholar,
Center for International Environmental Law, Washington, D.C.,
March.
The fishing agreements between the European Union (EU) and African
countries are striking examples of subsidized access to foreign fishing
grounds. These agreements have permitted the EU to redeploy large numbers of
fishing vessels from EU fishing grounds to those of African countries. The
Euro-African fishing agreements show how the subsidization of fishing access
can be devastating to fishery resources.
Porter, Gareth (1997). "The Euro-African Fishing Agreements:
Subsidizing Overfishing in African Waters." In World Wildlife
Fund s Subsidies and Depletion of World Fisheries, WWF s
Endangered Seas Campaign, 1250 Twenty-Fourth St., NW, Washington,
D.C., 136 pp.
The fishing agreements between the European Union (EU) and African
countries are striking examples of subsidized access to foreign fishing
grounds. These agreements have permitted the EU to redeploy large numbers of
fishing vessels from EU fishing grounds to those of African countries. The
Euro-African fishing agreements show how the subsidization of fishing access
can be devastating to fishery resources.
Porter, Gareth (1997). "Fisheries Subsidies, Overfishing and Trade."
Visiting Scholar, Center for International Environmental Law,
Washington, D.C., 88 pp.
Although subsidies have been a major issue in international trade
negotiations for decades because of their trade distorting effects, only in
the past decade have their negative impacts on the environment been widely
recognized. Reducing subsidies is one of the few trade and environment issues
where the objectives of trade liberalization and environmental protection are
clearly complementary rather than being in tension with one another. Fishery
subsidies specifically may be the most environmentally destructive natural
resource subsidies of all. This paper provides an analytical framework for
international consideration of the issue of fisheries subsidies, trade, and
the environment. The first section views nature resource subsidies in
economic theory and examines the mechanisms by which these subsidies
contribute to environmental degradation. The second section shows how
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