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Behavioral Incentives, Equilibrium Endemic Disease, and Health Management Policy for Farmed Animals
Hennessy, David A. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2005
welfare by encouraging precautionary biosecurity actions. Some technical innovations can reduce social welfare. The model is … also extended to study a voluntary herd depopulation scheme. Moral hazard in the biosecurity action will dampen the scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786453
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Economies of Feedlot Scale, Biosecurity, Investment, and Endemic Livestock Disease
Hennessy, David A. - 2006
. Larger herds are also more likely to adopt biosecurity innovations, explaining why larger herds may be less diseased in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443049
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Economies of Feedlot Scale, Biosecurity, Investment, and Endemic Livestock Disease
Hennessy, David A. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2006
. Larger herds are also more likely to adopt biosecurity innovations, explaining why larger herds may be less diseased in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005612603
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Neglected rural public health issue : the case of intestinal roundworms
Zhang, Linxiu; Cai, Yingping; Wang, Xiaobing; Ma, Xiaochen - In: China & world economy 21 (2013) 3, pp. 25-43
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009762290
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Self-enforcing environmental agreements and capital mobility
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2013
In a multi-country model with mobile capital and global pollution this paper analyzes the stability of self-enforcing environmental agreements (IEAs) when the coalition formed by the signatory countries plays Nash. In accordance with previous environmental literature we show that there exists a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369288
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Self-enforcing environmental agreements and capital mobility
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - In: Regional science & urban economics 48 (2014), pp. 120-132
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283359
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Self-enforcing environmental agreements and capital mobility
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2013
In a multi-country model with mobile capital and global pollution this paper analyzes the stability of self-enforcing environmental agreements (IEAs) when the coalition formed by the signatory countries plays Nash. In accordance with previous environmental literature we show that there exists a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213408
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The effects of airline alliances: What do the aggregate data say?
Gagnepain, Phillipe; Marín, Pedro L. - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - 2009
We consider an empirical model of worldwide airline alliances that we apply to a large set of companies for the period 1995-2000. Using observations at the companies level, we estimate a cost, capacity, and demand system that accounts for cross-price elasticities. From the estimates, we shed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008486976
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Regulatory Issues in Biosecurity
Pinfield, Chris - 2001
The management of biosecurity risks (risks to the production sector, to indigenous biodiversity, and to public health … Biosecurity Act 1993, paying particular attention to its requirements for risk analysis and decision-making. These are generally … for biosecurity differ widely and have been controversial. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115476
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Examining the control of bird flu risks among Nigerian poultry producers: implication for effectiveness of biosecurity knowledge, attitude, and practices (EBKAP)
Okpukpara, Benjamin - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 4 (2016) 25, pp. 1-19
This study examined socio-economic and behavioral factors affecting Nigerian poultry producers' biosecurity practices … not important in explaining the actual biosecurity decisions of the Nigerian producers. The study also found that adoption … of biosecurity actions depends on flock size (which related to income), educational level of farmers, and incidence of …
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