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Bockstael, N.E. (1976). "Analysis of Investment Behavior and Price
Determination: Analytical Input for the Formation of Policy in the
Fisheries." Dissertation, Department of Natural Resource
Economics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
This study provides a theoretical base and an analytical model that
would allow for the generation of necessary information inputs to policy
decisions regarding foreign fishing within the U.S. extended fisheries zone.
Two segments of the analysis include a fisheries investment behavior and
economic agent behavior model. The coordination of the two segments into an
interrelated, policy oriented, prediction model is discussed.
Bockstael, Nancy (1978). "Seafood Processing Capacity in Commercial
Fisheries Management: Discussion." American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, 60(5):1026-1027.
Reply to Prochaska, F.J. (1978). "Theoretical and Empirical
Considerations for Estimating Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Commercial
Fisheries." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 60(5):1020-1025.
Bockstael, N.E. (1984). "Uncertainty About Consumption and Consumer
Uncertainty." Draft report.
Uncertainty in the context of demand for fisheries products suggests two
quite distinct issues. The first is the uncertainty that resource managers
face in predicting demand; the second is the uncertainty that faces consumers
of fishery products. This paper argues that the first either is of little
importance relative to other prediction problems of fishery managers or
provides no new problems of analysis. However, the second issue relates to
the demand for quality, a topic receiving much attention in the recent
economic literature and one that has particular significance for the demand
for seafood. When producers in a competitive industry have control over
quality but consumers cannot perceive quality upon inspection, welfare gains
can be made from imposing minimum quality standards. In addition, publicly
supplied and accurate information about quality would have returns to both
parties when consumers, uncertain about the health risks related to fish
consumption, exhibit risk averse behavior.
Bockstael, N.E. (1984). "Uncertainty About Consumption and Consumer
Uncertainty." Marine Resource Economics, 1(1):67-76.
Uncertainty in the context of demand for fisheries products suggests two
quite distinct issues. The first is the uncertainty that resource managers
face in predicting demand; the second is the uncertainty that faces consumers
of fishery products. This paper argues that the first either (a) is of little
importance relative to other prediction problems of fishery managers or (b)
provides no new problems of analysis. However, the second issue relates to
the demand for quality, a topic receiving much attention in the recent
economic literature and one that has particular significance for the demand
for seafood. When producers in a competitive industry have control over
quality but consumers cannot perceive quality upon inspection, welfare gains
can be made from imposing minimum quality standards. In addition, publicly
supplied and accurate information about quality would have returns to both
parties when consumers, uncertain about the health risks related to fish
consumption, exhibit risk averse behavior.
Bockstael, N.E. and Catherine L. Kling (1988). "Valuing Environmental
Quality: Weak Complementarity with Sets of Goods." American
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 70(3):654-662.
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