Future of Regulation: Challenges and Opportunities from Emerging Technology
Commentaries & Insights
Our Commentaries and Insights are short-form publications intended to distill long-form research and synthesize current policymaking activity into easily understood concepts.
“Behavioural Government:” Implications for Regulator Behavior
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in the UK published a new report titled Behavioural Government. Although we usually talk about “nudging” to correct irrational choices of individual citizens, this report focuses instead on the behavioral biases of policymakers. The report considers various forms of behavioral bias and proposes a set of strategies to mitigate them.
EPA Proposes Replacement for Obama’s Signature Climate Initiative
The Environmental Protection Agency announced the Trump administration's proposed replacement for the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.
Trump Administration Picks up the Regulatory Pace in its Second Year
The first 6 months of the Trump administration’s second year reveal a quicker pace than its first, though still slower compared to the Obama administration.
FCC Process Reform Underscores Need for Economic Review at Independent Regulatory Agencies
At a June 2018 policy seminar, Chairman O’Rielly focused his remarks on the next steps in the FCC’s process reform efforts.
DHS Proposes Raising Barriers to Foreign Entrepreneurship in the U.S.
DHS recently proposed a rule to eliminate its international entrepreneur program, and the proposed removal would have negative economic effects.
Regulators’ Budget: OIRA’s Growth and the Future of Regulatory Reform
Sizing Up the Regulatory Landscape
A Taxonomy of Regulatory Forms
There is a lot of interest in understanding what effects regulations have on economic growth and other macroeconomic measures, but measuring those impacts is challenging, in part because regulatory metrics themselves are rather blunt. Pages or even words in regulatory code may not tell the whole story. Intuitively, the form a regulation takes is relevant for predicting its impacts.