Research Catalog

Title

Assessing the benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection regulatory actions to reduce terrorism risks / [edited by] Victoria A. Greenfield, Henry H. Willis, Tom LaTourrette.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Greenfield, Victoria A., 1964-
• Willis, Henry H.
• LaTourrette, Tom, 1963-
• United States. Department of Homeland Security.
• Industrial Economics, Incorporated
• RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center

Description

xi, 90 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection > Congresses
• Border security > Cost effectiveness > United States > Congresses
• Terrorism > Cost effectiveness > United States > Congresses

Note

• Proceedings of a workshop held in November 2011 in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk assessed the benefits of terrorism security regulations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Introduction -- Implementing Guidance -- Analytical Challenges -- Workshop Objectives, Charge, and Format -- Section 2 Emerging Ideas and Recurring Themes -- Qualitative Modeling -- Linking Actions to Outcomes -- Identifying Benefits Despite Challenges -- Valuing Information -- Quantitative Modeling -- Making Use of New Capabilities -- Exploiting CGE Models to Identify Welfare Effects -- Better Characterizing Behavior -- Understanding the Consequences of Fear -- Data Collection -- Expert Elicitation -- Natural Experiments -- Cross-Cutting Themes -- Modeling Capacity -- Transparency in Analysis -- Presentation of Information and Results -- Section 3 Points of Contention -- Section 4 Recommendations -- APPENDIX A Workshop Participants -- APPENDIX B Workshop Agenda
• APPENDIX C Invited Presentations from Workshop Participants -- Overview of Challenges Identified During the Development of Estimates of the Benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulations -- Presenter: Jennifer Baxter (IEc) -- Applying Modeling and Simulation to Estimate Risk Reduction Benefits for Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Presenter: Tony Cheesebrough (DHS, RMA) -- Authors: Tony Cheesebrough and Ryan Wise (DHS, RMA) -- Using Logic Models to Assess Security Benefits -- Presenter: Victoria A. Greenfield (RAND) -- Authors: Victoria A. Greenfield, Henry H. Willis, and Tom LaTourette (RAND) -- Characterizing Benefits of Anti-Terrorism Rules -- Presenter: James K. Hammitt (Harvard University and Toulouse School of Economics) -- Improving Estimation of the Benefits of Terrorism Risk Reduction: Learning from Environmental Economists? -- Presenter: Carolyn Kousky (Resources for the Future).

ISBN

• 9780833068613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 083306861X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012010914

OCLC

782127537

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library