The Regulatory Right-to-Know Act calls for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to submit to the US Congress each year “an accounting statement and associated report” including: (A) an estimate of the total annual…
Federal regulatory agencies in the US have been required to produce a regulatory impact analysis (RIA) for major regulations since the early 1980s. The analysis should include an estimate of the expected benefits and costs…
Note by Jerry Ellig Regulation creates costs for consumers, businesses, local governments, nonprofit institutions, and other regulated entities. The Regulatory Cost Calculator created by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University is a survey instrument…
La direttiva 2000/78/EC, relativa alla parità di trattamento in materia di occupazione e di condizioni di lavoro, fissa una cornice generale di principi applicabili in tutti gli Stati, al fine di eliminare qualsiasi tipo di…
On June 29th the US Supreme Court decided a landmark case, Michigan vs EPA, which could impact on cost-benefit jurisprudence. The Court has not evaluated the validity of the EPA’s cost-benefit analysis of the rule.…
Research note by Beryl A. Radin The article “Science and Policy Analysis in the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)” focuses on one expression of the relationship between science and policy analysis: the Office of…
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…
RegBlog hosts a series on the Michigan vs. EPA currently before the Supreme Court. The three essays of the series draw on the experience of law students at New York University Law School who observed…
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’…
The George Washington University hosted the 7th Annual Conference and Meeting of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (March 19-20 2015 st the GWU Marvin Center). SBCA is an international group of practitioners, academics and others…