Quantitative Risk Assessment in Regulation

This collection of six papers on the role of quantitative risk assessment in the promulgation of recent regulatory standards represents the latest contribution to a series of volumes published by Lester Lave and the Brookings Institution on regulatory decisionmaking.

Lester B. Lave was Harry B. and James H. Higgins Professor of Economics, director of the Carnegie Mellon Green Design Initiative, and co-director of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center.