In recent times - see Batabyal and Nijkamp (2005) and Batabyal and Lee (2006) - there has been considerable interest in studying container inspection policies as a regulatory tool in invasive species management. In this note, we continue this line of inquiry and first delineate a generic...

In recent times - see Batabyal and Nijkamp (2005) and Batabyal and Lee (2006) - there has been considerable interest in studying container inspection policies as a regulatory tool in invasive species management. In this note, we continue this line of inquiry and first delineate a generic...

Recently, Batabyal and Beladi (2009) have constructed a metric of the expected total monetary damage from the unintentional introduction of invasive species into a country called Home. In this note, we extend this line of inquiry by analyzing the statistical properties of this total monetary...

Recently, Batabyal and Beladi (2009) have constructed a metric of the expected total monetary damage from the unintentional introduction of invasive species into a country called Home. In this note, we extend this line of inquiry by analyzing the statistical properties of this total monetary...

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of inspections in a stochastic environment and we shed light on two hitherto unstudied issues concerning inspections in the context of invasive species management. First, given a particular port of entry in a country, we study the properties of a...