The demand for live seafood in Asia has spawned a lucrative trade in live coral reef fish that in 1995 had a global annual retail value of over USD 1 billion (Johannes and Riepen 1995; Cesar et al. 1997). There are concerns that the live reef fish food trade is inflicting an unacceptably heavy impact on coral reefs and reef resources in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific.5 These areas contain ...

The objective of this paper is to quantify Lobbying Effectiveness for trade policy. I introduce this measure into Grossman and Helpman’s (1994, American Economic Review 84: 833–850) model of protection-for-sale (PFS). Two alternate factors are suggested to explain differences in lobbying effectiveness across sectors; first, predisposition of the government to supply protection (owing arguably t...

In this paper we explore the influence of the possibility to short stocks and/or borrow money in laboratory markets. A key innovation of our study is that subjects can simultaneously trade two risky assets on two double-auction markets, allowing us to differentiate between assets with relatively high versus low capitalization. Divergence of opinions is created by providing each trader with nois...

iranian historiography during the safavid era affected by religious upheavals and intellectual and political developments, witnessed the emergence and evolution of a new approach towards time and techniques for recording history. the most important feature of this historiography was the continuance of pre-safavid models and regulations on the one hand, and the formation of typical safavid struc...

Increasing corn production requires a supply chain to channel from farmers consumers. The of as raw material for animal feed in Central Java Province is not yet well managed, because each farmer or business still carried out individually. aim the study was analyze picture based on Food Supply Chain Network and efficiency agribusiness Java. Sampling techniques using proportional random sampling ...

Online escrow is an emerging trust service in consumer-to-consumer auction markets to protect online traders from Internet fraud. This paper reports an empirical study on the factors affecting traders’ risk perception and their adoption of online escrow service. A web-based C2C auction experimental system has been implemented to dynamically collect subjects’ risk behavior during experiments. Th...