Shining a Light on Regulatory Costs
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Consumer’s Guide to Regulatory Impact Analysis
Regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) weigh the benefits of regulations against the burdens they impose and are invaluable tools for informing decision makers. We offer 10 tips for nonspecialist policymakers and interested stakeholders who will be reading RIAs as consumers.
Spinning Out of Control: The Hidden Costs of Appliance Efficiency Standards
In a recent presentation, Art Fraas and Sofie Miller used data on appliance defects from class action lawsuits to identify regulations that are ripe for review.
Is Consultation the New Normal?: Online Policymaking and Governance Reform in China
Governance reform has emerged as an element of the Chinese Communist Party’s development strategy in the era of the “new normal.” This article examines the implementation of online consultation, a prominent instrument of governance reform—institutionalized under Hu Jintao and championed by Xi Jinping—in which officials provide interested parties with opportunities to offer feedback on proposed public policies.
Examining How Small Businesses Confront and Shape Regulations
Prepared Statement for the Record for the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship hearing on "Examining How Small Businesses Confront and Shape Regulations."
Retrospective Evaluation of Chemical Regulations
Ex-ante regulatory impact assessment has a long tradition in many OECD countries, with established analytical steps and oversight as well as opportunities for public engagement to hold governments accountable for conducting analysis before regulations are issued. But ex-ante analyses necessarily depend on unverifiable assumptions and models of how the world would look absent the regulation, and how responses to regulatory requirements will alter those conditions. This paper attempts to address the challenges to evaluating regulatory outcomes and learning from those evaluations.
Prepared Statement of Susan E. Dudley, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs hearing on Agency Use of Science in the Rulemaking Process: Proposals for Improving Transparency and Accountability.
Latest Trump Executive Order Provides Guidance on “Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda”
Additional clarification provides direction for implementing the Trump administration’s previous orders to reduce regulation