Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123475 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 2015/07
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper examines the unprecedented decimation of sharks. We develop a Ricardian Gordon-Schaefer model with a continuum of heterogeneous species which are subject to combined harvesting and perfect substitutability in consumption. The model implies that slow-growing species, surviving in autarky, will be driven to extinction in an open trade regime. In the empirical analysis, we show that the model is in line with observations of shark biology and the international shark market. In particular, the likelihood of extinction turns out to be significantly greater for shark species which are part of trade in shark fins and exhibit low intrinsic growth.
Subjects: 
Sharks
Trade and Renewable Resources
Biodiversity
JEL: 
F14
F18
Q27
Q57
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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