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Publications by the Social Science Research Group

• Peer-reviewed journals
• NOAA Technical Memorandum

Peer-reviewed Publications

• Crosson, S., T. Yandle, and B. Stoffle. 2013. Renegotiating property rights in the Florida golden crab fishery. International Journal of the Commons. 7(2): Forthcoming.

• Crosson, S. 2013. The impact of empowering scientific advisory committees to constrain catch limits in U.S. fisheries. Science and Public Policy. 40(2): 261-273.

• Marvasti, A. 2013. An Econometric Analysis of Ocean Mineral Exploration Activities. Resource Policy. 38(1): 68-74.

• Marvasti, A. 2013. Estimating Outdoor Recreation Demand: A Revealed Preference Approach. Ocean and Coastal Management. 71(1): 170-175.
  

• Carter, D. W. and C. Liese. 2012. The Economic Value of Catching and Keeping or Releasing Saltwater Sport Fish in the Southeast USA. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 32(4): 613-25. supporting material

• Marvasti, A. 2012. An Analysis of Barter in Broadcasting Industry. Journal of Economic Studies 39(5): 537-553.
  

• Walter, J. F.; E.S. Orbesen, C. Liese, J. E. Serafy. 2012. Can Circle Hooks Improve Western Atlantic Sailfish, Istiophorus Platypterus, Populations? Bulletin of Marine Science 88(3): 755-770.

• Minello T. J., L. P. Rozas, P. A. Caldwell, C. Liese. 2012. A Comparison of Salt Marsh Construction Costs with the Value of Exported Shrimp Production. Wetlands 32(5): 791-799.

• Crosson, S. 2011. Resistance to Alternative Management in Fisheries: Economic and Cultural Considerations of North Carolina's Commercial fishers. Politics and the Life Sciences 30(2): 31-42.

• Marvasti, A. and D. Smyth. 2011. Barter and Business Cycles: Further Empirical Evidence. The American Economist 56(2) 85-97.

• Liese, C. and D. W. Carter. 2011. Collecting Economic Data from the For-Hire Fishing Sector: Lessons from a Cost and Earnings Survey of the Southeast U.S. Charter Boat Industry. 14 p. In Beard, T. D., Jr., A. J. Loftus, and R. Arlinghaus (editors). The Angler and the Environment. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

• Marvasti, A. 2010. Occupational Safety and English Proficiency. Journal of Labor Research 31(4): 332-347.
  
  
• Carter, D. W. and C. Liese. 2010. Hedonic Valuation of Sportfishing Harvest. Marine Resource Economics 25(4): 391-407. supporting material
  
  
• Marvasti, A. 2010. A Welfare Estimation of Beach Recreation with Aggregate Data. Applied Economics 42(1-3): 291-96.
  
  
• Carter, D.W. and D. Letson. 2009. Structural Vector Error Correction Modeling of Integrated Sportfishery Data. Marine Resource Economics 24(1):19-41. supporting material
  
  
• Karras, C. and J. Agar. 2009. Cruzan fisher's perspectives on the performance of the Buck Island Reef National Monument and the red hind seasonal closure. Ocean and Coastal Management 52:578-585.
  
  
• Liese, C.. 2009. Fishery Management for Artisanal Reef Fisheries in Developing Countries: A Holistic Economic Approach. Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 2008(July): 1116-1120.
  
  
• Stoffle, B. W., R.W. Stoffle, K. Van Vlack and J. Minnis. 2009. Credit, Identity and Resilience in Barbados and the Bahamas. Ethnology 48(1): 71-84.
  
  
• Tonioli, F. and J. Agar. 2009. Extending the Bajo de Sico, Puerto Rico, Seasonal Closure: An Examination of Small-scale Fishermen's Perceptions of Possible Socio- economic Impacts on Fishing Practices, Families and Community. Marine Fisheries Review 71(2):15-23.
  
  
• Agar, J., J. Waters, M. Valdes-Pizzini, M. Shivlani, T. Murray, J. Kirkley, and D. Suman. 2008. U.S. Caribbean Fish Trap Fishery Socioeconomic Study. Bulletin of Marine Science 82(3):315-331.
  
  
• Liese, C., Smith, M. D., and R.A. Kramer. 2007. Open access in a spatially delineated artisanal fishery: the case of Minahasa, Indonesia. Environment and Development Economics 12(1): 123-143.
  
  
• M. Miller, D. McClellan, J.W. Wiener and B. W. Stoffle. 2007. Apparent Rapid Fisheries Escalation at a Remote Caribbean Island. Environmental Conservation 34(2):92-94.
  
  
• Stoffle, B. W., and R.W. Stoffle. 2007. At the Sea's Edge: Elders and Children in the Littorals of the Bahamas and Barbados. Human Ecology 35:547-58.
  
  
• Carter, D. W. and J.W. Milon. 2005. Price Knowledge in Household Demand for Utility Services. Land Economics 81(2):265-83.
  
  
• Kiker, C.F., S. Leitman, and D. W. Carter. 2005. Adaptive Learning in Ecological Policy and Management. Pages 47-68 in Jordan, J.L. and A.T. Wolf (editors). Water Allocation in the Southeast: New Issues, New Methods, and New Models. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  
  
• Larkin, S. L., L. Perruso, M. C. Marra, R.K. Roberts, B.C. English, J.A. Larson, R.L. Cochran, and S.W. Martin. 2005. Factors Affecting Perceived Improvements in Environmental Quality from Precision Farming. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37(3):577-88.
  
  
• Marvasti, A. and R. Canterbery. 2005. Culture and Other Barriers in Motion Pictures Trade. Economic Inquiry 45(1): 39-54.
  
  
• Perruso, L., R. N. Weldon and S. L. Larkin. 2005. Predicting Optimal Targeting Strategies in Multispecies Fisheries: A Portfolio Approach. Marine Resource Economics 20(1):25-45.
  
  
• Weninger, Q. and J. R. Waters. 2005. Potential benefits of rights-based management in the reef fish fishery. Pages 69-84 in D.R. Leal (editor). Evolving Property Rights in Marine Fisheries. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD.
  
  
• Agar, J. and J. G. Sutinen. 2004. Rebuilding Strategies for Multispecies Fisheries: A Stylized Bioeconomic Model. Environmental and Resource Economics 28(1):1-29.
  
  
• Crosson, S., J. Orbell, and H. Arrow. 2004. Social Poker: a Laboratory Test of Predictions from Club Theory. Rationality and Society 16(2): 225-48.
  
  
• Kirkley, J. E., J. Walden, and J. Waters. 2004. Buyback programs: Goals, objectives, and industry restructuring in fisheries. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 36:333-45.
  
  
• Arrow, H. and S. Crosson. 2003. Musical Chairs: Membership Dynamics in Self-organized Group Formation. Journal of Small Group Research 34(5): 523-56.
  
  
• Carter, D. W. 2003. Protected Areas in Marine Resource Management: Another Look at the Economics and Research Issues. Ocean and Coastal Management 46(5):439-56.
  
  
• Weninger, Q. and J. R. Waters. 2003. Economic benefits of management reform in the northern Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46:207-30.
  
  
• Waters, J. R. 2001. Quota management in the commercial red snapper fishery. Marine Resource Economics 16:65-78.
  
  
• Waters, J.R., R. J. Rhodes, and R. Wiggers. 2001. Description of economic data collected with a random sample of commercial reef fish boats in the Florida Keys. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Report NMFS 154, 45p.
  
  
• Marvasti, A. 2000. Resource Characteristics, Extraction Costs, and Discovery of a New Resource Base. Environmental and Resource Economics 17(4): 397-410.
  
  
• Marvasti, A. and D. Smyth. 1999. The Effect of Barter on the Demand for Money: An Empirical Analysis. Economics Letters 64(1): 73-80.
  
  
• Marvasti, A. 1998. An Assessment of International Technology Transfer Systems and the New Law of the Sea. Ocean and Coastal Management 39(3): 197-210.
  
  
• Marvasti, A. 1996. Reserve Characteristics and Mining Costs: An Empirical Study of the Phosphate Industry. Environmental and Resource Economics 7(3): 357-73.
  
  

NOAA Technical Memorandum

(All documents linked below are in PDF.)

• Stoffle, B.,   Contillo, J.,   Grace, C., and D. Snodgrass, 2011. The Socio-economic Importance of Fishing in St. Thomas,USVI: An Examination of Fishing Community Designation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-623, 47 p.

• Tonioli, F. and J. Agar, 2011. Synopsis of Puerto Rican Commercial Fisheries. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-622, 47 p.

• Crosson, S.B. 2010. Trends in the South Atlantic Golden Crab Fishery. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-608, 24 p.
  

• Liese, C. and M.D. Travis. 2010. The Annual Economic Survey of Federal Gulf Shrimp Permit Holders: Implementation and Descriptive Results for 2008. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-601, 99 p.
  
  
• Valdés-Pizzini, M., J. Agar, K. Kitner, C. García-Quijano, M. Tust, and F. Forrestal. 2010. Cruzan Fisheries: A rapid assessment of the historical, social, cultural and economic processes that shaped coastal communities' dependence and engagement in fishing in the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. NOAA Series on U.S. Caribbean Fishing Communities. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-597, 144 p.
  
  
• Liese, C., M.D. Travis, and J.R. Waters. 2009. The Annual Economic Survey of Federal Gulf Shrimp Permit Holders: Implementation and Descriptive Results for 2007. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-590, 97 p.
  
  
• Liese, C., M.D. Travis, D. Pina, and J.R. Waters. 2009. The Annual Economic Survey of Federal Gulf Shrimp Permit Holders: Report on the Design, Implementation, and Descriptive Results for 2006. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-584, 91 p.
  
  
• Carter, D.W., J. Agar, and J. Waters. 2008. Economic Framework for Fishery Allocation Decisions with an Application to the Gulf of Mexico Red Grouper. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-576, 95 p.
  
  
• Griffith, D., M. Valdés-Pizzini and C. García-Quijano. 2007. Entangled Communities: Socioeconomic Profiles of Fishers, their Communities, and their Responses to Marine Protective Measures in Puerto Rico. NOAA Series on U.S. Caribbean Fishing Communities. Agar, J.J. and B. Stoffle (editors). NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-556, 524 p.
  • Volume 1: NMFS-SEFSC-556(a)
  • Volume 2: NMFS-SEFSC-556(b)
  • Volume 3: NMFS-SEFSC-556(c)
  
  
• Impact Assessment, Inc. 2007. Community Profiles and Socioeconomic Evaluations of Marine Conservation Districts: St. Thomas and St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. NOAA Series on U.S. Caribbean Fishing Communities. Agar, J. J. and B. Stoffle (editors). NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-557, 123 p.
  
  
• Agar, J. J., M. Shivlani, J. R. Waters, M. Valdés-Pizzini, T. Murray, J. Kirkley, and D. Suman. 2005. U.S. Caribbean Fish Trap Fishery Costs and Earnings Study. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-534, 127 p.