Biosecurity Papers and Presentations

These are papers and presentations arising out of the TAMU Biosecurity Economics Group

Operating under the FAZD Center – the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense

A Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence

And

Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

Faculty Level Team Members Categories of papers listed below

David A. Bessler Decision Making

Frederick O. Boadu Market Analysis

Levan Elkakidze Carcass Disposal

Yanhong Jin Literature Review

Bruce A. McCarl (Lead FAZD Economist)

Decision Making – Investigations regarding decision making in the face of possible outbreaks

· Ex Ante Preparedness vs Ex Post Response To Animal Disease Introductions: Better Safe Than Sorry? FAZD Project paper

• Economic Consideration of Mitigation of Foreign Animal Disease Introduction TAMU/FAZD Research brief

· Ex Ante Vs. Ex Post Bioterrorism Mitigation AAEA contributed paper at annual meeting Providence Rhode Island

• Preparedness Investments versus Response Expenditures for Animal Disease Mitigation TAMU/FAZD Research brief

· Animal Disease Pre Event Preparedness vs Post Event Response: When Is It Economic to Protect?  Draft of paper forthcoming in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics

· Animal Tracking: Benefits In Cattle Industry And Private Incentives  Draft journal article

· Animal Disease Related Pre event Investment and Post-event Compensation: A Multi-agent Problem Abstract of paper that will be presented at AAEA meeting in Long Beach, July 2006.

• Risk, Animals, AgroTerrorism and Economics Adapting Economic and Management Methodology to an Old Problem Seminar presentation at USDA ERS

· An economic Exploration of Prevention versus Response in Animal Related Bioterrorism Decision Making Presented at Working Together: R and D Partnerships in Homeland Security a DHS meeting, Boston, MA, April 2005

• Economic Investigation of Mitigation of Foreign Animal Disease Introduction Presentation at TAMU/FAZD
• Economic Modeling of Optimal Mitigation Strategies for Animal Related Biodefense Policies Seminar presentation at  TAMU/FAZD
• Bio-Security and the U.S. Livestock Sector: Trading off Prevention and Response Presentation of invited paper Meetings of Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Orlando, 2006
• An Economic Exploration of Prevention vs Response in Animal Related Bioterrorism Decision Making Levan Elbakidze's  Ph.D. Dissertation

Market Analysis – Studies regarding how outbreaks affect markets

• Impact of BSE and FMD on Beef Industry in UK Paper presented at the NCR-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management St. Louis, Missouri, April 18-19, 2005

Carcass Disposal -- Studies regarding economics of carcass disposal

· Animal Carcass Disposal: Legal, Regulatory and Institutional Considerations Paper by Frederick Boadu

· Economics of Homeland Security: Carcass Disposal and the Design of Animal Disease Defense Paper presented at American Agricultural Economics Association Meetings, Rhode Island, July 2005

· Economics and Homeland Security Strategies: Issues Regarding Carcass Disposal in the Design of Animal Disease Defense Presentation at American Agricultural Economics Association Meetings, Rhode Island, July 2005

• Economics and Homeland Security Strategies: Issues Regarding Carcass Disposal in the Design of Animal Disease Defense System Abstract of Paper for Southwestern Economics Association Meetings, San Antonio, April 2006

Literature Review – General literature review on economics of Agricultural Biosecurity

• The Economics of Agricultural Bio-security: An Interpretive Literature Review A literature review from Levan Elbakidze’s dissertation that is being upgraded
  
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