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Regulating Multiple Externalities: The Case of Nordic Fisheries

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Summary, in English

Open access is a well-known externality problem in fisheries causing excess capacity and overfishing. Due to global warming, externality problems from CO2 emissions have gained increased interest. With two externality problems, a first-best optimum can be achieved by using two regulatory instruments. However, solving the open-access externality problem also affects CO2 emissions. By using a bio-economic model covering Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands, it is shown that regulations of the open-access externality problem have a large effect on both economic performance and CO2 emissions, while an additional CO2 regulation only has minor effects. The second-best solution achieved by only regulating open access reduces emissions by approximately 50% compared to current fisheries, with the exception of Iceland, which already has a well-developed fisheries management system.

Publishing year

2016-04-01

Language

English

Pages

233-257

Publication/Series

Marine Resource Economics

Volume

31

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MRE Foundation, Inc.

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Climate change
  • economic efficiency
  • externalities
  • regulation
  • fisheries
  • fuel efficiency
  • Q22
  • Q54

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0738-1360