focus is now put on the procedural and substantive procurement tools that could be used for AI regulation by contract to … procurement that could be activated to create or enforce digital regulation requirements. It primarily seeks to ascertain whether … procurement tools could effectively operationalise digital regulation goals without simply transferring regulatory decisions to …

contributeto smarter regulation, documents the current low quality of such analysis at many independentregulatory agencies, and …

of the cost associated with adopting a new regulation (the enactment cost) on agency expertise depends on what the agency …

can vary due to heterogeneous effects of regulation and differing expectations about the regulator's expected actions with …

. Examples from financial regulation are provided as empirical support for the model …

Small businesses shoulder significant costs in order to comply with the maze of government regulation that impacts … for statutory reform but also the motivations and perceptions of the individuals most impacted by business regulation. We … propose that while legal reform can be helpful, actions can be taken from both sides of the regulation equation to make the …

models in one significant way: it considers the effect of regulation not only on the behavior of those subject to it … (potential wrongdoers), but also on the perceptions – and as a result, on the behavior – of those whom regulation seeks to … protect (potential victims).Normatively, the article challenges the view of regulation as a two-way tradeoff between …

George Stigler’s “The Theory of Economic Regulation” (1971) is a landmark in the economics of regulation. It used … simple public choice reasoning to set out the “capture theory” of regulation whereby “… as a rule, regulation is acquired by … central argument is the need to distinguish “acquired” from “designed and operated.” The rule that regulation is produced in …