Assessing the Benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulatory Actions to Reduce Terrorism Risks

by Victoria A. Greenfield, Henry H. Willis, Tom Latourrette

This document distills and synthesizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined alternative approaches for estimating the benefits of regulations designed to reduce the risks of terrorist attacks in the United States. The workshop gave rise to several recommendations for improving the modeling and data collection that support the benefit-cost analysis of terrorism security regulations.

102 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2012

About the author

Victoria Greenfield is a senior economist at RAND and a faculty affiliate with the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University. She specializes in national security, transnational crime, and international socio-economic issues, advising government agencies on strategy and organizational design. Known for her interdisciplinary approach, she coauthored Assessing the Harms of Crime: A New Framework for Criminal Policy, published by Oxford University Press. Her work also covers topics such as human and drug trafficking, cyber risks to supply chains, and military economic metrics. Greenfield has held prominent roles at the U.S. Department of State, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and the U.S. Naval Academy, and she has contributed to multiple National Academies committees. She earned her Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Berkeley.