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Regulating Consumer Product Safety

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  • W. Kip Viscusi

    (American Enterprise Institute)

Abstract

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has broad jurisdiction over a wide variety of consumer hazards, with considerable authority both to set product safety regulations and to take actions against hazardous products. How effectively has this authority been exercised?

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  • W. Kip Viscusi, 1984. "Regulating Consumer Product Safety," Books, American Enterprise Institute, number 920276, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aei:rpbook:920276
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    Cited by:

    1. Gregory B. Rodgers & Paul H. Rubin, 1989. "Cost‐Benefit Analysis of All‐Terrain Vehicles at the CPSC," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 9(1), pages 63-69, March.
    2. W. Kip Viscusi & Gerald O. Cavallo, 1994. "The Effect of Product Safety Regulation on Safety Precautions," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(6), pages 917-930, December.
    3. Calcott, Paul, 2004. "Government warnings and the information provided by safety regulation," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 71-88, March.

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    Keywords

    Regulation; consumers; AEI Press;
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    • A - General Economics and Teaching

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