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Reciprocal Exposure and Holdup in Fisheries: Implications of Fishery Management Policy

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  • The intermediate market for raw fish is characterized by time and space considerations that create significant quasi-rents between the fisher and the initial processor(s) approached to complete an exchange. This “temporal specificity” is more pronounced the fewer the number of alternative potential buyers, the more perishable the catch and the more geographically dispersed the alternative buyers. Owing to the costly strategic behavior that often accompanies large quasirents, “on-the-spot” negotiations are likely to result in a negative return for a fisher investing in technologies that lead to pronounced temporal specificity problems. An empirical study by Koss (1999) supports the hypothesis that reciprocal ex ante specific investment costs are incurred by some processors in order to reduce the probability of ex post holdup. This paper explores the implications that the above finding has for fishery management policies. In particular, if the goal of fishery management is to maximize the value of the fishery, then policy should not hinder the use of contractual tools that serve to accommodate or promote efficient transactions. The dilemma facing policy-makers, however, is that such tools often simultaneously lead to an increase in the concentration of market power among a small group of processors. Several existing policy alternatives are evaluated according to their tendency to accommodate or inhibit the use of reciprocal exposure to promote efficient exchanges.
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  • Koss, P. Reciprocal Exposure and Holdup in Fisheries: Implications of Fishery Management Policy. In : Microbehavior and Macroresults:Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute ofFisheries Economics and Trade, July 10-14, 2000, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.Compiled by Richard S. Johnston and Ann L. Shriver. InternationalInstitute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), Corvallis, 2001.
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  • Shriver, Ann L.
  • Johnston, Richard S.
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  • International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service MG Kailis Group
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