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.
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.
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.
Better Data Collection Would Improve Analysis of NEPA Regulations
Better data collection and reporting are key to analyzing how NEPA implementation has evolved and investigating whether the Act is achieving its goals.
The Trump Administration’s regulatory budget constraint may help improve agency benefit-cost analyses.
Embracing Ossification: Trump and the Shifting Politics of Procedural Controls
Deregulatory efforts by the Trump Administration have shown that procedures have similar effects on both attempts to deregulate and regulate.