Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83079 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IME Working Paper No. 50
Publisher: 
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME), Esbjerg
Abstract: 
The paper sets up a four-stage enforcement model of fish quotas. The purpose of the paper is to show how the level of enforcement set by the authorities af-fects the way fishermen form coalitions. We show that a high level of control effort yields less cooperation among fishermen, while in the case of low control effort, coalitions are somewhat self-enforcing. The paper further discusses how the optimal enforcement level changes when the coalition formation among au-thorities changes: centralised, partly centralised and decentralised authorities. We show that decentralised authorities set a lower level of control effort com-pared to the centralised authorities. The theoretical results are illustrated by simulations of the Baltic Sea cod fishery.
Subjects: 
Coalition formation
Fisheries management
Quota enforcement
Self-enforcing policy
JEL: 
C70
Q22
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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