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  • FlaatenPresentation.pdf

    Creator:
    Flaaten, Ola
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    The relationship between annual growth in the catches of fishing nations and the quality of the institutions of those nations is analyzed. Catch volumes are used as a proxy for development, since economic performance indicators based on a common set of definitions do not exist. 49 major fishing nations were...

  • Flaaten.pdf

    Creator:
    Flaaten, Ola
    Abstract:
    The relationship between annual growth in the catches of fishing nations and the quality of the institutions of those nations is analyzed. Catch volumes are used as a proxy for development, since economic performance indicators based on a common set of definitions do not exist. 49 major fishing nations were...

  • Global Aquaculture Growth and Institutional Quality

    Creator:
    Nadarajah, Suthamathy and Flaaten, Ola
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    This study analyzes the relationship between annual growth in the production of the major aquaculture countries and the quality of institutions in those countries over the last three decades (1984- 2013). Seventy-four aquaculture countries from five different regions - Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania - were selected for...
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  • Profit and Resource Rent in Fisheries

    Creator:
    Flaaten, Ola, Heen, Knut, and Matthíasson, Thórólfur
    Abstract:
    In fisheries, as well as in other natural resource based industries, there is a difference between the concepts of profit and rent. The former is a basic indicator for gauging the business performance of firms and industries, and the latter is for the evaluation of the economic welfare contribution of...
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  • Fishery Subsidies and Profitability Effects: Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores

    Creator:
    Duy, Nguyen Ngoc and Flaaten, Ola
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    This paper uses the propensity-score matching method to examine the effects of a government subsidy program on the profitability of fisheries. The approach analyzes the effects at the individual vessel level through representative surveys of costs and earnings data. Bioeconomic theory and a vessel economics framework for an open-access fishery...
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  • Stock Proxies in Efficiency Analysis of Fisheries

    Creator:
    Duy, Nguyen Ngoc and Flaaten, Ola
    Abstract:
    This study proposes three methods for technical efficiency (TE) estimation using three different fish stock proxy measures while applying the stochastic production frontier (SPF) approach. We apply these methods to two Vietnamese offshore fisheries, gillnet and hand-line, for which measures of stock abundance are unavailable. Based on the assumption of...
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  • The economics of size selective harvesting - the case of Barents Sea cod fisheries

    Creator:
    Andreasson, Stefan and Flaaten, Ola
    Abstract:
    Gear technologists have, in recent years, developed rigid sorting grids, Sort-X, in bottom trawls, to improve the size selectivity of this type of gear. Experiments with the Sort-X system in the aft sections of trawls were carried out aboard Norwegian and Russian trawlers along the coast of Northern Norway and...
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  • A Lecture Note on the Economics of Fish Stock Investment

    Creator:
    Flaaten, Ola
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    The aim of this paper is to assist teaching undergraduate students how to analyse the issue of fish stock investment. The mathematical prerequisites are a basic knowledge of calculus. Both discrete and continuos time frameworks are used. To fish down or to build up a fish stock takes time, and...
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  • Stubborn Fuel Tax Concessions – The Case of Fisheries in Norway

    Creator:
    Flaaten, Ola, Isaksen, John R., and Hermansen, Øystein
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    On the background of the abolishment of traditional subsidies this paper discusses the persistency of the major remaining subsidy scheme in Norwegian fisheries: exemption from fuel taxes. The reimbursement scheme stems from the late 1980s, and has been persistent since, under different governments. This paper gives the background for this...
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  • The Economics of MPAs Revisited

    Creator:
    Reithe, Siv, Armstong, Claire, and Flaaten, Ola
    Abstract:
    Assuming a broad set of management goals, we analyze the implementation of a marine protected area (MPA) together with open access by applying a bioeconomic model that ensures unchanged growth post-MPA. Taking into account that conservation and restoration, food security, employment and social surplus are amongst the objectives that many...
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