African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in cloven-hoofed animals cause substantial economic impacts because of animal depopulation, increased government spending on control, eradication and surveillance measures, and bans on international trade. This study employs a computable general equilibrium...

The study aims to examine the scenario of the S&P BSE and its major sectors before outbreak of novel corona virus and also the current performance of it. There is no doubt that the whole world has been affected badly; but here how the developing countries like India fighting against the COVID 19...

Species-based inequality is embedded in our institutions of law, government, and property. Legal distinctions between people and animals drive biodiversity loss. Recent environmental movements—including the rights of nature, animal rights, and wildlife property ownership—seek to lessen the...

This paper investigates the determinants of dividend decisions of the firms listed in BSE100 index. The impact of fundamental variables like profitability, size, risk, growth and liquidity on dividend payout is examined. Statistical techniques of correlation and regression have been used to...

African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a devastating impact on economy, affecting seriously the pig industry production and trade, discouraging farmers to restock their farms and continuing their business, overall changing policies and markets. In the last five years the ASF has badly...

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...

We examine how consumers and financial markets in the United States reacted to two health warnings about mad cow disease: the first discovery of an infected cow in December 2003 and an Oprah Winfrey show that aired seven years earlier on the potentially harmful effects of mad cow disease. We...

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...

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...

Animal disease outbreaks impose significant economic costs that evolve over space and time, but few studies have explicitly modeled their temporal and spatial impacts. Using an integrated epidemiological‐economic model, this article demonstrates a methodology that captures the dynamic and...

The article develops a dynamic capital valuation model in which farms can act with farm‐varying cost to increase the probability of avoiding an infectious endemic animal disease. Multiple endemic disease equilibria can exist, and the one with the largest set of action takers is socially...

We use a two‐state linear control model to examine the socially optimal management of disease in a valuable wildlife population when diseased animals cannot be harvested selectively. The two control variables are nonselective harvests and supplemental feeding of wildlife, where feeding...

We formulate a model that determines the net benefit of Johne's disease vaccination within a tuberculosis‐accredited region given the extra costs associated with the vaccine‐related cross‐reactivity with tuberculosis test results and the probability of a tuberculosis outbreak. We apply the...

We analyze how to induce sellers to disclose food safety. With repeated interactions and safety correlated over time, cash transfers alone do not ensure disclosure. Perfect, but costly, testing ensures disclosure with a complex lottery that may be difficult to implement in practice. In contrast,...

We present a simple model linking infection risk from imports to a tariff. The risk causes the exporter of the infected product to face a higher tariff than would otherwise be the case. A numerical example is developed for U.S. beef imports from nations with Foot‐and‐Mouth Disease (FMD). The...

We collect a novel dataset that covers about 130 countries and the six four-digit live animal categories in the Harmonized System (HS) over a sixteen-year period, to study the link between illicit trade in live animals and threat to animal health from infectious diseases. Our results imply that...

This study forecasts the return and volatility dynamics of S&P BSE Sensex and S&P BSE IT indices of the Bombay Stock Exchange. To achieve the objectives, the study uses descriptive statistics; tests including variance ratio, Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron, and Kwiatkowski Phillips...

This paper focuses on the direct impact of avian influenza outbreaks and the impact of the consequent non‐tariff measures (NTMs) on the international poultry trade. Using monthly export data from China and its 122 poultry importing countries, a random‐effect gravity model has been adopted....

Avian influenza (AI) refers to a large group of viruses that affect birds. Strains that belong to subtypes H5 or H7 and are considered virulent are classified as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Domestic poultry populations have been very susceptible to HPAI infection, although some...