Fishing effort validation and substitution possibilities among components: the case study of the VIII division European anchovy fishery
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31/10/2012
31/10/2012
2003
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Resumo |
Command and control regulation programs, particularly input constraints, typically fail to achieve stated objectives, because fishermen may substitute unregulated for regulated inputs. It is, thus, essential to have an understanding of the internal structure of production technology. A primal formulation is used to estimate a translog production function at the vessels level that includes fishing effort and fisherman’s skill. The flexibility of the selected functional permits the analysis of the substitution possibilities among inputs by estimating the elasticity of substitution with no prior constraints. Particular attention is paid to the empirical validation of fishing effort as an aggregate input, which implies either, the acceptation of the joint hypothesis that inputs making up effort are weakly separable from the inputs out of the subgroup or considering that effort is an intermediate input produced by a non-separable two stage technology. Cross sectional data from the Spanish purse seine fleet operating in the VIII Division European anchovy fishery provide evidence of limited input substitution possibilities among the inputs making up the empirically validated fishing effort translog micro-production function. |
Identificador |
Applied Economics 35(1) : 63-77 (2003) 0003-6846 1466-4283 (on-line) http://hdl.handle.net/10810/8929 10.1080/00036840210158949 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Routledge. Taylor & Francis |
Relação |
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036840210158949 |
Direitos |
(c) 2003 Taylor & Francis Ltd info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #elasticity of substitution #fishing effort #fisherman’s skill #translog production function #separability #VIII Division European anchovy |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |