Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "Environmental law -- Compliance costs -- United States"

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    • Are Risk Regulators Rational? Evidence from Hazardous Waste Cleanup Decisions 
      Viscusi, W. Kip; Hamilton, James, 1961- (The American Economic Review, 1999)
      Using original data on the cleanup of 130 hazardous waste sites, we examine the degree Superfund decisions are driven by efficiency concerns, biases in risk perceptions, and political factors. Target risk levels chosen by ...
    • Regulatory Traffic Jams 
      Ruhl, J. B.; Salzman, James; Song, Kai-Sheng (Wyoming Law Review, 2002)
      Notwithstanding the tremendous amount of attention environmental agencies, policy analysts, and scholars have paid to "regulatory reinvention," it has been pitched primarily as a refinement of the sanction and facilitation ...