Averting or limiting the outbreak of infectious disease in domestic livestock herds is an economic and potential human health issue that involves the government and individual livestock producers. Producers have private information about preventive biosecurity measures they adopt on their farms...

The Indian stock market has a significant place in the global market. It is known that performances of Indian stock market affect the nearby share markets as well as the far away markets. The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is the first Indian stock market exchange. As such predictions on BSE were...

The study tries to practically use the widely taught Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) model for making investment decisions on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) –500 Index. Using CAPM, the study tries to investigate whether securities on BSE 500 are over-valued, properly valued or under-valued....

The study uses three volatility models of the GARCH family to examine the volatility behavior and in particular volatility persistence or long memory of the return series of four Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sectoral indices. The study uses the daily data from January 1, 2002 to December 31,...

Understanding why some human populations remain persistently poor remains a significant challenge for both the social and natural sciences. The extremely poor are generally reliant on their immediate natural resource base for subsistence and suffer high rates of mortality due to parasitic and...

"The purpose of the book will provide an update on African Animal Trypanosomiasis and tick-borne diseases and provide the latest empirical research findings in the area of African Animal Trypanosomiasis (Nagana) and tick-borne diseases affecting Livestock"--