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National Survey Evidence on Disasters and Relief: Risk Beliefs, Self-Interest, and Compassion
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2006)
A nationally representative sample of respondents estimated their fatality risks from four
types of natural disasters, and indicated whether they favored governmental disaster
relief. For all hazards, including auto ...
Deterring and Compensating Oil-Spill Catastrophes: The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liability
(Virginia Law Review, 2011)
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weaknesses in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This Article proposes a new liability ...
Discounting Dilemmas: Editors' Introduction
(Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2008)
Two developments pose dilemmas for well established discounting techniques: (1) The
extremely long time horizons associated with recently prominent environmental policy problems, such as climate change and nuclear waste ...
The Denominator Blindness Effect: Accident Frequencies and the Misjudgment of Recklessness
(American Law and Economics Review, 2004)
People seriously misjudge accident risks because they routinely neglect relevant information about exposure. Such risk judgments affect both personal and public policy decisions, e.g., choice of a transport mode, but also ...
Economic Contests: Comparative Reward Schemes
(Journal of Labor Economics, 1984)
Contests are situations in which an individual's reward depends on his performance relative to others. Students are graded on a curve; the candidate with the most votes gets the political office; the un- derling who performs ...