Ronald B. Mitchell, Professor

Add articles and thoughts they have prompted here

• Wilson 2016 article on research expenditures as share of GDP
  • Based on this paper, I think it would be more useful to consider as an important metric/variable the “expenditure on research as a proportion of GDP” instead than directly the GDP. Read the text I highlighted in yellow at the bottom of page 4 of the pdf.
    Andrea
• Jeon 2008 article on Tuna prices
• Jimenez-Toribio 2010 article on global integration of tuna markets
• Bailey 2013 article on a bioeconomic game-theoretic equilibrium model to show that cooperative management of tuna in WCPO could bring more economic benefits to the region.
  • Three fisheries considered (purse seine, longline, and handline), and three species of tuna analyzed (skipjack, yellowfin, and bigeye).
  • Reduction in the use of FADs can increase economic benefits in the region, which requires cooperation among countries
• Barclay and Catwright 2007 article on governance in tuna fishing industries in WCPO. It provides lots of good information on social issues, characteristics of the fishery and fishing industry, and associated governance implications in the area
• Tveteras 2012 article in which is developed a Fish Price Index, including one for tuna, based on FAO data. It might be helpful in case we decide to develop a more specific FPI for tuna for each area of RFMO’s jurisdiction.
• Squires 2006 article on price linkages in the WCPO (Bangkok vs Pago-Pago/American Samoa) and implications for the South Pacific Tuna Treaty (SPTT) between US and Pacific Islands Parties (PIP)
  • SPTT: prices and revenues are shared between parties (US and PIP) when the ex-vessel price for cannery-grade skipjack tuna rises above an agreed-upon floor level. The question then is, which market and species should be used as benchamrk? Results suggests that Bangkok and skipjack should be used as the leadership market and species when compared to Pago-Pago and other species (i.e., yellowfin  and bigeye)
• Adolf 2016 article describing how the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) countries are trying to alter the current Global Value Chain (GVC) for canned skipjack tuna (they hold 25% of the global tuna market stock in their national waters) after obtaining MSC certification in 2011.
  • Information on how PNA countries are trying to reposition themselves in changing the current lead-firm coordination in the skipjack tuna GVC leveraging on obtained MSC certification
  • Information on Pacifical as an alternative to current, foreign traders: Tri Marine (US -Italy), FCF Fishery (Taiwan) and Itochi (Japan).