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Bjorndal, Trond and Jon M. Conrad (1987). "Capital Dynamics in the
North Sea Herring Fishery." Marine Resource Economics, 4: 63-74.
A discrete time model is formulated to model decisions of boats to enter
or exit the North Sea herring fishery. A lagged model is specified to reflect
adjustment time to changes in profits. The empirical results indicate that
fleet adjustment in this fishery primarily depends on current period profits
and that the opportunity cost may depend on returns in the alternative fishery
(mackerel). Lagged variables reflecting vessel construction time accounted
for a small increase in the statistical fit. The hypothesis that entry in
response to positive profits is more elastic than exit due to negative profits
was not supported by the results.
The harvesting industry's capital investment model was relatively
simplistic reflecting the limited data set available to the authors. The
annual data covered a relatively short period of time and probably little
cross sectional data existed for this fishery. These limitations restrict the
available degrees of freedom necessary to construct and estimated more
sophisticated models.
Black, Robert, Bruce McKenney, Robert Unsworth, and Nicholas Flores (1998).
Economic Analysis for Hydropower Project Relicensing: Guidance and
Alternative Methods. Industrial Economics, Incorporated, 2057
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October.
A review of the Federal Power Regulatory Commission guidelines of cost
benefit analysis for relicensing hydropower projects. Comments and
suggestions for improving the analyses are included.
Blackman, Sue Anne Batey and William J. Baumol (1980). "Modified Fiscal
Incentives in Environmental Policy." Land Economics, 56(4):417-
431.
We have sought to describe how ingenuity can devise a variety of
modified environmental programs that in different degrees approximate the pure
financial incentives advocated by many economists.
Blake, Kevin S. (1996). Modeling Preferences for Regulatory Options: A Case
Study of the Northeast Recreational Bluefin Tuna Fisherman. Non-
Thesis, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I., August, 86 pp.
Since passage of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of
1977, U.S. fishery managers have concerned themselves with achieving optimum
social yield . To effect this mandate, fishery managers have focused on
direct effort controls without determining how fishermen, commercial or
recreational, may prefer the fishery be regulated. Using contingent valuation
methods, economists may determine if preferences exist for some types of
regulations. This paper uses contingent, or discrete, choice questions from a
1991 mail survey of Northeastern recreational Western Atlantic bluefin tuna
fishermen o demonstrate that fishermen have preferences for catch limit
regulations.
Blomo, Vito J. (1983). "Economic Criteria Regarding Diversification
Through Public and/or Private Sector Financing." Report V in
Assessment of Shrimp Industry Potentials and Conflicts, Volume II,
Shrimp Notes Incorporated, 417 Eliza Street, New Orleans,
Louisiana, August, 22 pp.
Cyclical swings in the profitability of shrimp harvesting operations has
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