Environmental risks may comprise the most important policy-related application of the economics of risk and uncertainty. Many biases in risk assessment and regulation, such as the conservatism bias in risk assessment and the stringent regulation of synthetic chemicals, reflect a form of...

Virtually all U.S. states have now created voluntary cleanup programs (VCPs) offering liability relief and other incentives for responsible parties to remediate contaminated sites. We use a duration model to analyze participation in Oregon’s program. In contrast to previous VCP research, we...

En este trabajo se plantea un problema relacionado con la recogida, transporte y tratamiento de residuos. Se consideran centros generadores de residuos y centros de tratamiento, y se contempla la instalación de nuevas plantas de tratamiento en ciertas localizaciones seleccionadas en un conjunto...