The Valuation of Fisheries Rights: A Real Options Approach / Jose Pizarro, Eduardo S. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pizarro, Jose.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Schwartz, Eduardo S.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25140.

NBER working paper series no. w25140

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Valuation of Fisheries Rights

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

This article develops and implements a Real Option approach to value renewable natural resources in the case of Marine Fisheries. The model includes two sources of uncertainty: the resource biomass and the price of fish, and it can be used by fisheries to optimally adapt their harvesting strategy to changing conditions in these stochastic variables. The model also features realistic operational cash flows and fisheries can shutdown and reopen operations. Using publicly available data on the British Columbia halibut fishery, the required parameters are estimated and the model solved. The results indicate that the conservation of the biomass is both optimal from a financial and a social perspective. The approach could be extended to other fish species and natural resources if the appropriate data were available.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2018.