Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we provide a framework to analyze the potential gains from quota trading. We compare the industry profit and structure before and after a free trade reallocation of production quotas. The effects of tradable production quotas depend on several technological...

The Expert Working Group meeting of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries EWG-14-01 on Landing obligation in EU fisheries - part 3 - was held from 10-14 February 2014 in Varese, Italy. The report was reviewed and endorsed by the STECF during its plenary meeting held from...

This corrigendum should replace the corresponding section 8.4 of the 38th Plenary meeting report of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (PLEN-11-03). Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, EUR 25033 EN, JRC67714.

The Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries hold its 38th plenary on 7-11 November 2011 in Brussels (Belgium). The terms of reference included both issues assessments of STECF Expert Working Group reports and additional requests submitted to the STECF by the Commission. Topics...

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

In Denmark, many small-scale forest owners are affiliated to local district offices of The Danish Forestry Extension Service. Increasing economic pressure has caused a search for more efficiency in the Service, including potential reorganisation. In this paper, the efficiency of the different...

We characterize optimal investment and compensation strategies in a model of an investment opportunity with managerial incentive problems, caused by asymmetric information over investment costs and the manager's desire to consume slack, and flexibility over the timing of its acceptance. The...

Health care provision is undergoing major reforms in Europe as a reaction to rapidly increasing expenditure and lowered political acceptance to commit public finance to cover the deficits. The Dutch government will decide in 2007 if the current budget system will be replaced by a more...

This article discusses models in data envelopment analysis (DEA) relaxing the standard convexity assumptions. The basic model treats mutually incomparable pairs of sets to be generated by a procedure proposed earlier. Each pair consists of a consumption set and a production set of feasible...