increases and decreases in environmental health risk probabilities, for increases and decreases in costs, and reference … possible cost and health risk change combinations using data from our choice-based experiment for a nationally representative …

treatment of corporate risk analyses by the courts. This Article proposes that companies place a greater value on lives at risk … than they have in previous risk analyses and that they be given legal protections for product risk analyses. Companies …

any given initial expected risk level, optimal risk-taking decisions involving uncertainty in a multi-period world should …

General patterns of bias in risk beliefs are well established in the literature, but much less is known about how these … these risk beliefs varies across demographic factors, as does the switch point at which people go from underassessment to … overassessment, which we found to be 1,500 deaths annually for the full sample. Better educated people have more accurate risk …

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 in terms of … equitable tradeoffs rather than equity in risk levels. Equalizing the cost per life saved across policy contexts will save …

cases. They also penalized corporations for undertaking corporate risk analyses that seek to trade off cost versus risk …. Judges were less prone to erroneous risk beliefs and less subject to the zero risk mentality …

with high stated values of statistical life, who do not smoke, and who have risk beliefs that are highly elastic with …