books by Alan J Krupnick (regulatory governance giardiasis)

books by Alan J Krupnick

books:

Rules in the Making: A Statistical Analysis of Regulatory Agency Behavior (RFF Policy and Governance Set)
Wesley Magat, Alan J. Krupnick, ...

RFF Press, 2011

Rules in the Making represents an attempt to revolutionize ways of thinking about regulatory decision-making. The book tries to show that statistical methodologies can be used to determine what factors are important in the establishment of government regulation by developing a mathematical model of the regulatory process and agency behavior. The model is then tested using a case study of the Environmental Protection Agency's setting of effluent ...

A Shock to the System: Restructuring America's Electricity Industry (Resources for the Future)
Timothy J. Brennan, Karen L. Palmer, ...

RFF Press, 1996

A Shock to the System is a guide to the decisions that will be faced by electricity providers, customers, and policymakers. Produced by a team of analysts at Resources for the Future, this concise and balanced work provides background necessary to understand the increasing role of competition in electricity markets. The authors introduce important concepts and terminology, and offer the history of public policy regarding electricity. They ...

Economics and Episodic Disease: The Benefits of Preventing a Giardiasis Outbreak (Rff Press)
Winston Harrington, Alan J. Krupnick, ...

RFF Press, 1991

Benefit-cost analysis of public policies designed to protect the environment and the public from environmental contaminants is growing in popularity, whether as the determinative criterion or as an ingredient in a broader assessment of a policy's desirability. Also growing, unfortunately, is the number of poorly executed analyses, which not only degrade the decisions they are meant to inform but cast doubt upon the usefulness of benefit-cost ...