Fisheries Management with Multiple Market Failures

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Within fisheries it is well-known that several market failures exist. However, fisheries economists analyse these market failures separately despite the fact that the market failures arise simultaneously. In this paper several market fail-ures that arise simultaneously are analysed. A resource stock tax and a tax on self-reported harvest are considered as a solution to problems associated with the stock externality, measuring individual catches and stock uncertainty. Within a fisheries economic model it is shown that it will be in the interest of risk-averse fishermen to report a part of their catch even without a control pol-icy. In addition, it is shown that this tax structure can secure optimal expected individual catches and simulations show that the tax payment is very low. Thus, the tax system may be useful in practical fisheries management.

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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IME Working Paper ; No. 54

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Fishery; Aquaculture ; Economics of Regulation
• Subject: Prices regulation ; Quantity regulation ; Asymmetric Information ; Self-Reporting ; Stock Tax and Harvest Tax ; Fischwirtschaft ; Fischerei ; Unvollkommene Information ; Dänemark

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jensen, Frank ; Vestergaard, Niels
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME)
• (where): Esbjerg
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/83078