What’s wrong with the back of the envelope? A call for simple (and timely) benefit–cost analysis
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President Obama’s Competition Executive Order Could Benefit from a History Lesson
Agencies directed to address undue burdens on competition
The Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act: An Opportunity for Improved Regulatory Assessment?
The Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act: An Opportunity for Improved Regulatory Assessment?
Senators: Put Politics Aside in Reforming America’s Regulatory System
While most of GW was quiet Thursday in the last days of spring break, two U.S. senators were addressing a crowd of more than 300 at the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis 8th Annual Conference at the University Student Center.
Pitching Retrospective Review as a Cure for Regulatory Accumulation
Retrospective review may be the best way to address this inevitable regulatory buildup, but the path to effective review of regulations has many obstacles.
Are Future Lives Worth More, Today, Than Our Own – Simply Because of Income Growth?
The charge questions that EPA has presented to the EEAC for consideration this week relate to the analytical foundations of a procedure for estimating the value of statistical lives saved in the future – possibly the distant future – as a result of regulations imposed today.
This study examines existing practices for communication and cooperation between regulators in the European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) responsible for transportation safety and other matters regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The study describes current procedures, identifies successes and challenges to effective regulator-to-regulator cooperation, and offers suggestions for improving regulatory outcomes through cooperation.