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European countries (using EU-SILC data) and the US (using CPS data). We find a robust tendency in all countries to compensate …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement. Economic theory suggests that conducting audits on a predictable schedule, and (counter-intuitively) at high frequency, can undermine the effectiveness of audits. We conduct a...
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that could be taken into account by the RFMO managing this fishery, and to investigate some of the policy implications. …
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We uncover a hidden illegal fishing practice: the use of fishing nets with illegally small mesh size. The small mesh prevents nearly all fish of saleable size from escaping the net, but also traps a large number of fish which are too small to be sold on the market and are therefore discarded at...
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The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main … economic effect of future changes in the EU marine ecosystem in the medium term (2030). We focus on those changes potentially … following deterioration of marine ecosystem quality. Impacts on EU coastal countries Gross Domestic Product are negative and …
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reasons for recommending an EU tax. First, it can be used to correct part of the market failure associated with fishery …The EU regulation of fisheries is decided in two levels. The level of the total allowable catch (TAC) for the most … information problem as an adverse selection problem and analyse an EU tax coupled to effort as an alternative to the TAC system …
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