Wildlife disease management strategies traditionally focus on lowering aggregate host density below a host-density threshold, reducing infectious contacts (when transmission is density-dependent) to reduce prevalence. The focus on aggregate host density is because controls such as harvests are...

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 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,...