• Climate change and small pelagic fish price volatility 

      Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Price volatility, an indicative measure of price uncertainty, is an important factor influencing fisheries cost, income, food security, and pressure on fish stocks. An increase in price volatility means that prices are ...
    • Estimating the Competitive Storage Model with Stochastic Trends in Commodity Prices 

      Osmundsen, Kjartan Kloster; Kleppe, Tore Selland; Liesenfeld, Roman; Oglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We propose a State-Space Model (SSM) for commodity prices that combines the competitive storage model with a stochastic trend. This approach fits into the economic rationality of storage decisions and adds to previous ...
    • Global markets and the commons: The role of imports in the US wild-caught shrimp market 

      Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Smith, Martin D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The commons literature focuses heavily on rules and the behavior of resource users but places less emphasis on the returns to individual effort. However, for most resource settings, market conditions and associated resource ...
    • Impacts of Covid-19 on Norwegian Salmon exports: A firm-level analysis 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Abrahamsen, Eirik Bjorheim; Birkenbach, Anna M.; Langguth, Johannes; Lanquepin, Guillaume; Roll, Kristin Helen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-02)
      A rapidly growing literature investigates how the recent Covid-19 pandemic has affected international seafood trade along multiple dimensions, creating opportunities as well as challenges. This suggests that many of the ...
    • Insights from transaction data: Norwegian aquaculture exports 

      Straume, Hans-Martin; Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Oglend, Atle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This paper discusses how transaction data can be used to shed light on trade dynamics in seafood exports, with Norwegian salmon exports as the case. There is a large literature on exports and imports of salmon between ...
    • Salmon trout, the forgotten cousin? 

      Landazuri-Tveteraas, Ursula; Oglend, Atle; Steen, Marie; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12)
      This study investigates potential economic reasons why the production of trout is maintained in Norway by analyzing prices and production for Norwegian Atlantic salmon and trout. The species Atlantic salmon dominates the ...
    • The São Paulo wholesale seafood market: A study of fish prices in Brazil 

      Pincinato, Ruth Beatriz; Oglend, Atle; Bertolini, Renata Melon Barroso; Muñoz, Andrea Elena Pizarro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We analyze fish pricing in the São Paulo wholesale market, the second largest seafood market in South America. Quantitative price analysis is complemented by interviews with participants in the value chain to answer how ...
    • Seafood prices reveal impacts of a major ecological disturbance 

      Smith, Martin D.; Oglend, Atle; Kirkpatrick, A. Justin; Asche, Frank; Bennear, Lori S.; Craig, J. Kevin; Nance, James N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01)
      Coastal hypoxia (dissolved oxygen ≤ 2 mg/L) is a growing problem worldwide that threatens marine ecosystem services, but little is known about economic effects on fisheries. Here, we provide evidence that hypoxia causes ...
    • Tools of the trade: trade flexibility with respect to margins and buyers 

      Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Straume, Hans-Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Access to highly disaggregated trade data allows for a more nuanced investigation of different margins of trade, and the factors known to influence them. In this paper, the number of importers and shipments to each importer ...