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Food and fraud: On the Codfather and harvest mislabeling.

We study incentives to mislabel output in multispecies fisheries managed by tradeable catch shares. Firms can save quota costs by misreporting species harvested, as seen in criminal proceedings against the Codfather. We show that price elasticities for the abundant species reported in the cheating w...

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Published in:RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 463 - 499
Main Authors: DePiper, Geret, Holzer, Jorge
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2024
Subjects:
Elasticity (Economics)
Fraud
Criminal procedure
Prices
Groundfishes
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