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Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning About Risk
(The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2000)
This paper incorporates a Bayesian learning model into a hedonic framework to estimate the value that residents place on avoiding cancer risks from hazardous-waste sites. We show that residents are willing to pay to avoid ...
Risk Equity
(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000)
Risk equity serves as the purported rationale for a wide range of inefficient policy practices, such as the concern that hypothetical individual risks not be too great. This paper proposes an alternative risk equity concept ...
Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act?
(Stanford Law Review, 2000)
Balancing of risk and cost lies at the heart of standard negligence tests and
policy analysis approaches to government regulation. Notwithstanding the desirability
of using a benefit-cost approach to assess the merits of ...
The Value of Life in Legal Contexts: Survey and Critique
(American Law and Economics Review, 2000)