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Judicial Review of Agency Benefit-Cost Analysis
(George Mason Law Review, 2015)
This Article evaluates judicial review of agency benefit-cost analysis ("BCA") by examining a substantial sample of thirty-eight judicial decisions on agency actions that implicate BCA. Essentially, the Administrative ...
Behavioral Public Choice: The Behavioral Paradox of Government Policy
(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 ...
Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor
(American Economic Association, 2012)
Society has several institutional mechanisms that promote the control of product health and safety risks and compensation of the income losses that these risks generated. For risks traded in the market, economic forces at ...
An Investigation of the Rationality of Consumer Valuations of Multiple Health Risks
(The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012)
After developing a conceptual analysis of consumer valuation of multiple risks, we explore
both economic and cognitive hypotheses regarding individual risk-taking. Using a sample
of over 1,500 consumers, our study ...
The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
(American Journal of Health Economics, 2015)
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias often yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are substantially below the mean VSL estimates. Labor market ...
The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory State
(William & Mary Law Review, 2018)
Although regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The ...
The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory state
(William & Mary Law Review, 2018)
While regulatory agencies place high values on the benefits associated with the reduction in mortality risks due to regulations, these same agencies substantially undervalue lives in their enforcement efforts. The disparity ...