This symposium issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty addresses wide-ranging policy issues pertaining to risk regulation and the economic underpinnings of these efforts. One such intervention consists of policies to address informational market failures. Whether new information has a positive value is less obvious than economists often assume. When more stringent regulations are required, the structure and evaluation of these efforts often hinges on the value of a statistical life, or the VSL. This symposium reports estimates of the utility functions that generate these local risk-money tradeoffs as well as new estimates of the VSL using both stated-preference and revealed-preference approaches. Articles also explore the behavioral factors that affect VSL estimates, the effect of health risks on product prices, and how income taxation affects stated-preference survey elicitations of the VSL. The symposium reports estimates of the VSL for almost 200 countries as well as the VSL levels used by U.S. government agencies in analyses of over 100 government regulations from 1985 to 2018.

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建立更安全社会的风险指南：简介和概述

本期《风险与不确定性杂志》解决与风险监管和这些努力的经济基础有关的广泛政策问题。一种这样的干预措施包括解决信息市场失灵的政策。新信息是否具有积极价值并不像经济学家通常认为的那么明显。当需要更严格的法规时，这些工作的结构和评估通常取决于统计寿命或VSL的价值。该专题讨论会报告了产生这些本地风险与风险权衡的效用函数的估计，以及使用陈述-偏好和显示-偏好方法的VSL的新估计。文章还探讨了影响VSL估算的行为因素，健康风险对产品价格的影响以及所得税如何影响VSL的陈述偏好调查引发。