The Economic Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Swedish Shrimp Fishers

Davide Dutto, Krister Mars and Håkan Eggert ()
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Davide Dutto: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O. Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Krister Mars: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O. Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden
Håkan Eggert: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: P.O. Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG, Sweden, http://economics.gu.se

No 825, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper explores the effect of the perceived risk of the Swedish people of Covid-19 on daily auctioned shrimp prices from the start of the pandemic to the end of the year 2021. This topic is of interest to see whether the government intervention in the shrimp market to aid fishers with possible losses was justified. We find that auction prices were negatively affected by covid-19 cases by 19.83 SEK/kg (-9.37 %), and that fishers have suffered a loss of 21.5 million SEK.

Keywords: COVID-19; Fisheries; Food prices; Shrimp (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q00 Q21 Q22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2022-08
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