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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

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
 

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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, 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.
Journal cover image

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