Epidemics from the economic theory viewpoint

Mathematical Population Studies (MPS) has been devoting special interest and significant publication space to the study of epidemics from its first volumes. In particular, research on the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been extensively published in the journal. An entire issue (Volume 3, Issue 3) has been devoted to the demographic modelling of this epidemic in 1992. See, for example, Blythe (1992) and Brouard and Bonneuil (1992). Since then, MPS has served as a important outlet for research in this topic. More recent highly cited related papers are Morris and Kretzschmar (2000) and Korenromp et al. (2000), among others. Research on other infectious diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis...) has also been recurrently published in MPS. The last special issue of the journal (Volume 18, Issue 2) has focused on mathematical immunology of infectious diseases (see for example Niger and Gumel, 2011, on malaria dynamics).