Measuring Costs and Benefits of Privacy Controls
Considering public policies to balance the collection, sale, and use of personal data with individuals' right to privacy
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Electric Utility Competition — In South Carolina?
Retail electric competition has recently become a hot issue in South Carolina.
Improving Regulatory Benefit-Cost Analysis
This article briefly reviews the process by which regulations are developed in the United States and the role for BCA. It then examines the institutional and technical factors limiting the use of BCA as a tool for improving regulatory policy. It concludes with some recommendations.
Measuring Energy Efficiency: Accounting for the Hidden Costs of Product Failure
DOE sets energy efficiency standards for a wide variety of consumer appliances to achieve a “significant conservation of energy.” Advocates for these standards claim that households have realized substantial cost savings with the existing standards. There is a substantial literature—although no consensus—on the effects of energy efficiency regulation, however.
Since 2018, Regulatory Studies Center scholars have co-authored the Rulemaking chapter of "Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice," an annual publication of the American Bar Association, Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section.
Transparency and Public Commenting Under EO 13771
Hearing features agency best practices for paring back rules
Enduring Principles of Sound Regulatory Analysis
The economic foundations of Executive Order 12866 underscore its continued importance in regulatory review.