The effect of initial lease periods on price discovery in laboratory tradable fishing allowance markets

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-180

  Anderson, Christopher M ^a   Sutinen, Jon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset market; Experiment; Fishery management; ITQs; Lease markets; Price bubble; Transferable allowances

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749134811     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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