Imagined Risks and Cost - Benefit Analysis

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 376-380

  Pollak, Robert A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

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