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 -