Restricted capacity and rent dissipation in a regulated open access fishery

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 366-380

  Deacon, Robert T ^a   Finnoff, David ^b   Tschirhart, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity of substitution; Fishery management; Regulated open access; Rents

Indexed keywords

COMMON STRATEGY; ELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OPEN ACCESS; REGULATED OPEN ACCESS; RENTS;

ELASTICITY;

FISHERIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMERSAL FISHERY; FISHERY REGULATION; FISHING INDUSTRY; RENTAL SECTOR; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

THERAGRA;

EID: 79952616433     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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