Environmental risk and welfare valuation under imperfect information

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 150-169

  Konishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Coggins, Jay S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensating variation; Environmental risk; Self protection; Value of information

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ANALYSIS;

COMPENSATING VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INFORMATION; MITIGATION; WELFARE PROVISION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 40649128328     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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