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This paper assesses the quality and use of regulatory analysis for economically significant regulations produced by federal agencies in 2008. A nine-member research team used a six-point (0-5) scale to evaluate regulatory analyses according to criteria drawn from Executive Order 12866 on...
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flow of new health regulation alone since the year 2000 has far exceeded the flow of environmental regulation. The second …
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As the COVID-19 crisis intensified, policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels started suspending or rescinding laws and regulations that hindered sensible, speedy responses to the pandemic. These “rule departures” raised many questions. Were the paused rules undermining public...
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The federal regulation and state enterprise (“FRASE”) index ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia according … relied on regulations as its primary legal output. Although federal regulation applies in the same way in all states, each …
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Americans expect federal regulation to accomplish many important things, such as protecting the country from financial … fraudsters, preventing workplace injuries, preserving clean air, and deterring terrorist attacks. Regulation also requires … tradeoffs—there is no such thing as a free lunch. Depending on the regulation, consumers may pay more, workers may receive less …
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and improve both legislation and regulation …
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textual analysis to count “restrictiveness clauses” in regulation — such as “must”, “cannot” and “shall” — thereby developing …
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We investigate whether regulatory growth disproportionately burdens small businesses relative to large businesses. Using panel data from RegData 3.0 and exploiting variation across industries over time, we empirically estimate the relationship between regulatory growth and growth in the number...
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