Regionalization and foot-and-mouth disease control in South America: Lessons from spatial models of coordination and interactions

摘要: Abstract Regulatory interventions to control animal diseases, such as foot-and-mouth-disease (FMD), can yield substantial economic benefits regions with large livestock sectors. However, because disease vectors span national borders, the full of regulation only be achieved through international coordination. Divergent incentives between large-scale operations producing for export and smallholders subsistence or local markets may mitigate coordination efforts. A series spatial games are used characterize these types regional externalities. Results suggest that promoting investments in market development lagging have greatest potential eradicating disease.