Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Gayer, Ted, 1970-"

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    • Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Gayer, Ted, 1970- (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2015)
      Although government agencies increasingly use behavioral irrationalities as a justification for government intervention, the paradox is that these same government policies are also subject to similar behavioral inadequacies ...
    • The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Gayer, Ted, 1970-; Hamilton, James T., 1961- (Southern Economic Journal, 2002)
      In this paper, we use housing price changes occurring after the release of a regulatory agency's environmental risk information to estimate the value people place on cancer risk reduction. Using a large original data set ...
    • Private Values of Risk Tradeoffs at Superfund Sites: Housing Market Evidence on Learning About Risk 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Gayer, Ted, 1970-; Hamilton, James, 1961- (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 ...
    • Safety at Any Price 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Gayer, Ted, 1970- (Regulation, 2002)
      After three decades of experience with extensive government regulation and oversight of health, safety and environmental matters, we have reason to believe that those measures have largely failed to fulfill their initial ...