The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual framework for understanding how analysis of costs and benefits might be incorporated into an assessment of regulatory policies affecting deepwater drilling. We begin by providing a framework for analyzing the life-cycle impacts of oil drilling...

This article considers the Finanical Stability Board and the extent to which this extension of the current "soft law" regime can be a substitute for a "hard law" regime with greater enforcement powers. The article concludes that greater institutional backing for the FSB is achievable without...