Today EU (independent) agencies seem to require hardly any introduction. Their proliferation in quantitative and ‘qualitative’ (powers) terms has attracted an incredible amount of attention from scholars of political science, public administration, and law as…
This research note republishes the foreword from a special symposium issue of the UC Irvine Law Review on cost-benefit analysis. The issue was published in conjunction with a conference that asked scholars and practitioners to…
Research note by Monica Gentile, Nadia Linciano, Caterina Lucarelli, Paola Soccorso Monica Gentile, Nadia Linciano, Caterina Lucarelli, Paola Soccorso, Financial disclosure, risk perception and investment choices. Evidence from a consumer testing exercise, Quaderno di Finanza n. 82, maggio…
Fabrizio Di Mascio, Alessandro Natalini and Francesco Stolfi (forthcoming). “The implementation of administrative burden reduction policy: Mechanisms and contexts in the study of Europeanization”, Comparative European Politics Research note by Francesco Stolfi Two open issues in…
Research note by Camilla Adelle Poor quality regulation can impede innovation and stifle competition in any country but is a particular challenge in developing countries. Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is about embedding good regulatory governance…
Research note by Adriana Bunea, Marie Curie Fellow, University College London Consultations with stakeholders are a key policy instrument used by the European Commission (EC) to prepare its legislative proposals and a core component of its…
Research note by Fabrizio De Francesco In this paper “Transfer agents, knowledge authority, and indices of regulatory quality: A comparative analysis of the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development“, I propose…
Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation: A Comparative Perspective, Edward Elgar, 2015 Research note by Sofia Ranchordás Now more than ever, legislators and regulators are required to be ‘smarter’, regulate without stifling innovation, reduce unnecessary burdens on the…
Research note by Eduardo Jordão and Susan Rose-Ackerman This note summarizes our article “Judicial review of executive policymaking in advanced democracies: beyond rights review”, published in the Administrative Law Review, volume 66 (2014). The article considers…
J. Ellig, C.J. Conover, Presidential Priorities, Congressional Control, and the Quality of Regulatory Analysis: An Application to Healthcare and Homeland Security, in «Public Choice», vol. 161 (Nov-Dec 2014) Research note by Jerry Ellig Background In the United States’…