Consider a ?sh stock with growth function g(St?Ht), where St is the stock size at the beginning
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Consider a ?sh stock with growth function g(St?Ht), where St is the stock size at the beginning of period t and Ht is harvest.
We have shown that the optimal catch quantity in period 1 is characterized by the condition
where p > 0 is the ?sh price, c > 0 is a parameter of the cost function and ? > 0 is the discount factor.
a) Give a de?nition of the term over?shing. b) Give an economic interpretation of condition (1) c) Why does open access lead to over?shing? d) What would be an appropriate regulation to avoid over?shing?
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Microeconomics An Intuitive Approach with Calculus
ISBN: 978-0538453257
1st edition
Authors: Thomas Nechyba
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