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dc.contributor.authorKapaun, Uteen
dc.contributor.authorQuaas, Martin F.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-04-
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-11T12:23:21Z-
dc.date.available2012-10-11T12:23:21Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/64812-
dc.description.abstractWe analyze the effect of environmental uncertainties on optimal fishery management in a bio-economic fishery model. Unlike most of the literature on resource economics, but in line with ecological models, we allow the different biological processes of survival and recruitment to be affected differently by environmental uncertainties. We show that the overall effect of uncertainty on the optimal size of a fish stock is ambiguous, depending on the prudence of the value function. For the case of a risk-neutral fishery manager, the overall effect depends on the relative magnitude of two opposing effects, the 'convex-cost effect' and the 'gambling effect'. We apply the analysis to the Baltic cod and the North Sea herring fisheries, concluding that for risk neutral agents the net effect of environmental uncertainties on the optimal size of these fish stocks is negative, albeit small in absolute value. Under risk aversion, the effect on optimal stock size is positive for sufficiently high coefficients of constant relative risk aversion.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aKiel University, Department of Economics |cKielen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aEconomics Working Paper |x2012-09en
dc.subject.jelQ22en
dc.subject.jelQ57en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordfishery economicsen
dc.subject.keywordenvironmental uncertaintyen
dc.subject.keywordconstant escapementen
dc.subject.keywordrisk aversionen
dc.subject.keywordprudenceen
dc.titleDoes the optimal size of a fish stock increase with environmental uncertainties?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn72677412Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:cauewp:201209en

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