SA’s ocean economy reviewed
CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s oceans and beaches boost the country’s economy by roughly 35 percent, in terms of the ‘goods and services’ they provide. This is highlighted in a report released recently by…
Fisheries and energy in focus during EfDPolicy day 2016
In relation to the EfD Annual meeting, the Chilean EfD center (NENRE) organized a policy day as a forum for policy makers and EfD researchers to meet and exchange ideas. The focus of this year´s event…
Marcela Jaime, Jorge Dresdner y Miguel Quiroga attend the 8th Annual Meeting of SOCHER in Santiago de Chile
NENRE researchers attend the 8th Annual Meeting of Chilean Society of Regional Studies (SOCHER): cities and regions in transformation. The meeting was developed in the Pontificia Universidad Católica…
Disease Risk and Market Structure in Salmon Aquaculture
EfD Authors:
We develop a model of a multi-national firm producing commodities for a global market in multiple locations with location-specific risks and different regulatory standards. Salmon aquaculture and disease outbreaks provide an empirically relevant example. We specifically examine details of the infectious salmon anemia outbreak in Chile in the late 2000s, the multi-national nature of some firms operating in Chile, and the overall market structure of the salmon farming industry as motivation for our theoretical model.
Carolyn Fischer awarded with The AquaFish Prize.
EfD and Resource for the Future Senior Researcher Carolyn Fischer was awarded with the 2016 Best Aquaculture Economics Paper (The AquaFish Prize). The International Institute of Fisheries Economics &…
Bigger is better for SA hake fishing companies: winning Honours thesis
CAPE TOWN: A study into the structure of the South African hake fishing industry, which finds that keeping the industry serviced by bigger companies is less environmentally hazardous, has won an…
NENRE’s researchers at IIFET 2016 in Aberdeen
Jorge Dresdner and Carlos Chávez presented their work during the IIFET 2016 Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. They contribute with the presentation of the following papers to the sessions in the…
Workshop on methods for estimating the indirect employment generated by Chilean fisheries
VALPARAISO, CHILE: NENRE researchers, Miguel Quiroga and Jorge Dresdner, reported the results of a study whose aim was to estimate, by different methods, indirect employment generated by Chilean…
Are mussel seed collectors responsive to economic incentives? Empirical evidence from the Benthic Resource Management Areas in Chile
EfD Authors:
We specify a model to analyze the participation and supply decisions of coastal producers performing with mussel seed uptake.
What Can we Learn from a Sanitary Crisis? The ISA Virus and Market Prices
EfD Authors:
We analyzed whether a competitive market can behave non-competitively when it is temporarily outside of its long-run equilibrium trajectory.