Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fish. Show all posts
Monday, December 25, 2023

Auctioning fresh fish, quickly. by Hafalir, Kesten, Sherstyuk and Tao

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  Here's an auction for when leisurely price discovery is costly. When Speed is of Essence: Perishable Goods Auctions by Isa Hafalir, ,...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Lobster traps, whales, and the enforcement of informal property rights

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 An experiment to protect whales from becoming entangled in the long ropes that connect lobster traps on the sea floor to buoys on the surfa...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Fishery regulation involves onboard observers at sea--a very dangerous job

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 Next time you eat a salt water fish, spare a thought for how fisheries are regulated to keep them viable as a common pool resource.  There ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Design of fisheries--EURO Excellence in Practice Award to Bichler, Ferrell, Fux, and Goeree

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Congratulations to the winners, and to the fishermen and the fish for this recent award for market design. EURO Excellence in Practice A...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

High bids for tuna at Tsukiji fish market celebrate the new year

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Bluefin tuna sells for record $1.76 million at Tokyo auction, 3 times previous record "A bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 mill...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Fishery management in ancient Hawaii

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Ancient Civilizations Reveal Ways to Manage Fisheries for Sustainability " The authors of the study, titled "Multicentury trends...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

More beans, less cod in Boston next year?

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"For the second straight year, the federal government is expected to lower catch limits on certain New England groundfish that swim cl...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Fishing as an endangered but protected transaction

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Here in New England, the plight of the fishing industry, and particularly of independent fishermen who operate small "day boats" f...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Ingredient lists, and farmed fish

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Consumer protection laws work in strange ways, but one thing they do fairly well is to require that ingredients be listed on processed food....
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Random allocation, preferences, and welfare: a fish story

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Flying from Madrid to Boston on an Airbus with two aisles not long ago, two stewardesses proceeded in parallel down the aisles offering food...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Policing the lobster commons

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Lobsters are caught in traps that sit on the sea floor, marked by (and recovered via) buoys that float above, connected to the trap by a rop...
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Monday, August 24, 2009

What if they ran an auction and nobody came?

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David Fahrenthold writes in the Washington Post about Maryland's unsuccessful attempt to buy back some crab fishing licenses via an auct...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Licensing of Lawyers and Doctors and some more surprising professions

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Can it be that Texas has only 22 licensed matchmakers? (But 73 licensed ringside physicians?) You can search Texas licenses by type here , i...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

Paul Romer on market design

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Paul Romer, at Charter Cities , thinks of market design as part of the economics of ideas, in his post on Fish Proverb v2.0 (Bringing in Rul...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Is fish-tossing repugnant?

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Fishmongers in Seattle throw dead fish around the market, and it has apparently become not just a way of handling fish for sale, but a form ...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Fly fishing

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I spent last weekend in Jackson Hole Wyoming at a transplant conference . My friend Owen Phillips , the U. of Wyoming experimental economis...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Opposite of repugnance: Protected transactions

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I've been thinking lately about transactions that are the opposite of repugnant , i.e. transactions that, as a society, we often seek to...
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Sustainable fisheries

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Nowhere is the "tragedy of the commons" clearer than in ocean fisheries, which are difficult to regulate and maintain in a sustain...
Friday, January 9, 2009

School choice at sea

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"Peer effects" are a potentially big issue in schools, although hard to model. How children affect each others' education can ...