TY  - RPRT
AB  - The worldwide scare over the "Y2K bug" result in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on Y2K compliance and conversion policies. Most of this can be seen, in retrospect, to have been unproductive or, at least, misdirected. In this paper, the technological and institutional factors leading to the adoption of these policies are considered, along with suggestions as to how such policy failures could be avoided in future.
AU  - Quiggin, John
DA  - 2004-02-18
DA  - 2004-02-18
DO  - 10.22004/ag.econ.151503
DO  - doi
ID  - 151503
KW  - Public Economics
KW  - Risk and Uncertainty
KW  - Y2k
KW  - Moral Panic
L1  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151503/files/WPP04_1.pdf
L2  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151503/files/WPP04_1.pdf
L4  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151503/files/WPP04_1.pdf
LA  - eng
LK  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151503/files/WPP04_1.pdf
N2  - The worldwide scare over the "Y2K bug" result in the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on Y2K compliance and conversion policies. Most of this can be seen, in retrospect, to have been unproductive or, at least, misdirected. In this paper, the technological and institutional factors leading to the adoption of these policies are considered, along with suggestions as to how such policy failures could be avoided in future.
PY  - 2004-02-18
PY  - 2004-02-18
T1  - The Y2K Scare: Causes, Costs and Cures
TI  - The Y2K Scare: Causes, Costs and Cures
UR  - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/151503/files/WPP04_1.pdf
Y1  - 2004-02-18
T2  - Australian Public Policy Program
T2  - P04/1
ER  -