Jointly determined livestock disease dynamics and decentralised economic behaviour

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-410

  Gramig, Benjamin M ^a   Horan, Richard D ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioeconomics; Biosecurity; Disease eradication; Epidemiology; Replicator dynamics

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZATION; DISEASE; DISEASE CONTROL; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LIVESTOCK; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79959892645     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2011.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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