英文标题：
《Decision-making in Livestock Biosecurity Practices amidst Environmental
  and Social Uncertainty: Evidence from an Experimental Game》
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作者：
Scott C. Merrill (1), Christopher J. Koliba (2), Susan M. Moegenburg
  (1), Asim Zia (2), Jason Parker (3), Timothy Sellnow (4), Serge Wiltshire
  (5), Gabriela Bucini (1), Caitlin Danehy (6), and Julia M. Smith (6) ((1)
  Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont, (2) Department
  of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont, (3)
  School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University at
  Mansfield, (4) Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central
  Florida, (5) Department of Food Systems. University of Vermont, (6)
  Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Vermont)
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最新提交年份：
2019
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英文摘要：
  Livestock industries are vulnerable to disease threats, which can cost billions of dollars and have substantial negative social ramifications. Losses are mitigated through increased use of disease-related biosecurity practices, making increased biosecurity an industry goal. Currently, there is no industry-wide standard for sharing information about disease incidence or on-site biosecurity strategies, resulting in uncertainty regarding disease prevalence and biosecurity strategies employed by industry stakeholders. Using an experimental simulation game, we examined human participant\'s willingness to invest in biosecurity when confronted with disease outbreak scenarios. We varied the scenarios by changing the information provided about 1) disease incidence and 2) biosecurity strategy or response by production facilities to the threat of disease. Here we show that willingness to invest in biosecurity increases with increased information about disease incidence, but decreases with increased information about biosecurity practices used by nearby facilities. Thus, the type or context of the uncertainty confronting the decision maker may be a major factor influencing behavior. Our findings suggest that policies and practices that encourage greater sharing of disease incidence information should have the greatest benefit for protecting herd health.
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中文摘要：
畜牧业容易受到疾病的威胁，这可能会花费数十亿美元，并产生巨大的负面社会影响。通过增加使用与疾病相关的生物安全实践，减少了损失，使提高生物安全成为行业目标。目前，没有关于疾病发病率或现场生物安全策略信息共享的行业标准，导致行业利益相关者使用的疾病流行率和生物安全策略存在不确定性。利用一个实验模拟游戏，我们检验了人类参与者在面临疾病暴发情景时对生物安全的投资意愿。我们通过改变提供的关于1）疾病发病率和2）生产设施对疾病威胁的生物安全策略或反应的信息来改变情景。在此，我们表明，随着疾病发病率信息的增加，对生物安全的投资意愿增加，但随着附近设施使用的生物安全实践信息的增加，投资意愿降低。因此，决策者面临的不确定性类型或背景可能是影响行为的主要因素。我们的研究结果表明，鼓励更多地共享疾病发病率信息的政策和做法应该对保护畜群健康有最大的好处。
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分类信息：

一级分类：Economics        经济学
二级分类：General Economics        一般经济学
分类描述：General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类：Quantitative Finance        数量金融学
二级分类：Economics        经济学
分类描述：q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学，包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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