Browsing by Subject "AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS"
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Las indicaciones de origen protegidas como elemento de diferenciación de los productos agroalimentarios: el caso del jamón en España
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2012)El origen es una de las estrategias utilizadas tradicionalmente por parte de los productos agroalimentarios para diferenciar una oferta de otra en el mercado. En nuestro país existen más de 140 Indicaciones de Origen ... -
International and Intergenerational Dimensions of Climate Change: North-South Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Framework
(2003-12)Global environmental problems such as climate change have both an international and an intertemporal dimension. Recently, some papers have used an overlapping generations framework to analyze the climate change problem ... -
International Trade and Strategic Privatization
(2001-03)The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider that there is strategic interaction between governments when they decide whether to privatize their public firms. In order to analyze this quetion we consider two countries; ... -
Is the Current Regulation of the VIII Division European Anchovy Optimal?
(Kluwer Academic Publ., 2001-05)This paper sets out to assess the workability of the regulation currently in force in the European anchovy fishery of the VIII division. Particular attention is paid to the importance of the institutional regime in the ... -
Key business factors for eco-innovation: an overview of recent firm-level empirical studies
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2012)[EN] The increasing interest in eco-innovation or environmental innovation as a strategy not only to address the serious global environmental problems but also as a source of competitive advantages for companies and for ... -
Landscape valuation through discrete choice experiments: Current practice and future research reflections
(2012)The Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are a fast growing landscape valuation technique. This paper describes some recent applications implemented in this field and identifies their attributes, levels, payment vehicles, ... -
Lessons from the northern hake long-term management plan: Could the economic assessment have accepted it?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-01)An economic expert working group (STECF/SGBRE-07-05) was convened in 2007 for evaluating the potential economic consequences of a Long-Term Management Plan for the northern hake. Analyzing all the scenarios proposed by ... -
Mixed Oligopoly and Environmental Policy
(2001-02)The literature on mixed oligopoly does not consider the role that the environmental policy of the government plays on the decision whether to privatize public firms. Assuming that there are one public firm and n private ... -
Nekazaritzako elikagai ekologikoen banaketa politika iraunkorra: adierazle sistema agroekologikoaren proposamen praktikoa
(Facultad de Economía y Empresa. Sección Gipuzkoa, 2016-12-30)[EUS] Nekazaritza ekologikoko produktuen ekoizpena eta kontsumoa hazi egin da azken urteetan, etengabe eta modu garrantzitsuan. Kontsumitzaileen segmentu berriak sortu dira kezka berriekin: osasuna, ingurumena, bertako ... -
Optimal overall emissions taxation in durable goods oligopoly
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)We analyze optimal second-best emission taxes in a durable good industry under imperfect competition. The analysis is performed for three different types of emissions and for situations where the good is rented, sold or ... -
Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy
(2011)This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a ... -
Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations
(Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2016-06)We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complement or substitute goods and that compete with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants of the ... -
Pulse vs. Optimal Stationary Fishing: The Northern Stock of Hake
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2011-11)Pulse fishing may be a global optimal strategy in multicohort fisheries. In this article we compare the pulse fishing solutions obtained by using global numerical methods with the analytical stationary optimal solution. ... -
R&D Policy in Economies with Endogenous Growth and Non-Renewable Resources
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-10)The aim of this paper is to analyze how active R&D policies affect the growth rate of an economy with endogenous growth and non-renewable resources. We know from Scholz and Ziemens (1999) and Groth (2006) that in infinitely ... -
Reference Points and Optimal Management in Stochastic Age-Structured Fisheries Models
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2009-07)The purpose of this article is to characterize dynamic optimal harvesting trajectories that maximize discounted utility assuming an age-structured population model, in the same line as Tahvonen (2009). The main novelty of ... -
Second-best tax policy in a growing economy with externalities
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-10)This paper investigates the exploitation of environmental resources in a growing economy within a second-best scal policy framework. Agents derive utility from two types of consumption goods one which relies on an ... -
Selecting random parameters in discrete choice experiment for environmental valuation: A simulation experiment
(2010)This paper examines the various tests commonly used to select random parameters in choice modelling. The most common procedures for selecting random parameters are: the Lagrange Multiplier test as proposed by McFadden and ... -
Sole Ownership and Common Property Under Management Flexibility: Valuation, Optimal Exploitation and Regulation
(2001-01)If one were to examine the institutional configurations under which real world fisheries operate, one would find virtually no fisheries operating under either pure open access or rent maximizing conditions. Instead, most ... -
The Evaluation of Fisheries Management: A Dynamic Stochastic Approach
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-03)In this article, we analyze how to evaluate fishery resource management under “ecological uncertainty”. In this context, an efficient policy consists of applying a different exploitation rule depending on the state of the ... -
The influence of cultural identity on the WTP to protect natural resources: some empirical evidence
(2008)This paper shows that cultural identity may have considerable influence on the WTP to protect natural resources. The Basque Country, the region with the highest ethnic homogeneity in Europe, serves as an example to illustrate ...