Do you trust me? – Go Fish! A Study on Trust and Fisheries Management
Abstract
This paper investigates trust among stakeholders in fisheries management. We asked the general public, environmental bureaucrats, and recreational and commercial fishers whether
they believed various stakeholders have sufficient knowledge to take a stance regarding
fisheries management issues in a choice experiment they themselves had just been exposed to. We found that the general public and recreational fishers tend to trust bureaucrats to have sufficient knowledge, while bureaucrats distrust the general public. The commercial fishers in our sample deviate from the other respondents with high self-trust and low trust in both the general public and bureaucrats. In addition, bureaucrats tend to think that their colleagues are more knowledgeable than them. When looking at observable characteristics, we find that,
regardless of comparison group, males show higher trust in their own knowledge than do
females, and those with higher education believe they are more knowledgeable than people in
general.
Other description
JEL: Q22
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Date
2016-10Author
Eggert, Håkan
Kataria, Mitesh
Lampi, Elina
Keywords
Trust
Fisheries Management
Overconfidence
Choice experiment
Publication type
report
ISSN
1403-2465
Series/Report no.
Working Papers in Economics
675
Language
eng