Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media.
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Johnson, FR
Published in: Risk Anal
June 1988
This study reports results of an analysis of consumer responses to news reports of grain-product contamination by the pesticide ethylene dibromide (EDB). The results demonstrate that it is possible to quantify market disruption related to the dissemination of risk information. Implications include the need for increased awareness among risk managers that public perceptions, regardless of their objective accuracy, can induce real economic costs. Such costs should be considered in designing regulatory and information policies.
Duke Scholars
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Risk Anal
DOI
ISSN
0272-4332
Publication Date
June 1988
Volume
8
Issue
2
Start / End Page
261 / 269
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- United States
- Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
- Risk Factors
- Public Opinion
- Maximum Allowable Concentration
- Hydrocarbons, Brominated
- Humans
- Food Contamination
- Ethylene Dibromide
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Johnson, F. R. (1988). Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media. Risk Anal, 8(2), 261–269. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1988.tb01179.x
Johnson, F. R. “Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media.” Risk Anal 8, no. 2 (June 1988): 261–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1988.tb01179.x.
Johnson FR. Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media. Risk Anal. 1988 Jun;8(2):261–9.
Johnson, F. R. “Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media.” Risk Anal, vol. 8, no. 2, June 1988, pp. 261–69. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1988.tb01179.x.
Johnson FR. Economic costs of misinforming about risk: the EDB scare and the media. Risk Anal. 1988 Jun;8(2):261–269.
Published In
Risk Anal
DOI
ISSN
0272-4332
Publication Date
June 1988
Volume
8
Issue
2
Start / End Page
261 / 269
Location
United States
Related Subject Headings
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- United States
- Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
- Risk Factors
- Public Opinion
- Maximum Allowable Concentration
- Hydrocarbons, Brominated
- Humans
- Food Contamination
- Ethylene Dibromide