Regulations help governments support economic growth, social welfare and environmental protection. The challenge is to design clear, coherent, and efficient regulations and to effectively implement them. This report presents cutting-edge thinking in how to facilitate good regulatory design and...

As financial institutions whose business is the acceptance and management of risk, insurers are expected to have sound governance practices and effective risk management systems. The nature of their business activities requires insurers to be subject to tailored guidance on their risks and...

The paper introduces a dataset of de jure institutional characteristics of regulatory agencies in more than 100 countries and 16 sectors. By doing so it discusses up to which degree countries with different administrative traditions have shaped the incorporation of such institutions into their...

Although the prospect of increased rationality in rulemaking makes legislation, such as Independent Agency Regulatory Analysis Act (S. 1173), facially appealing, there are a number of reasons to be wary of such efforts to impose OMB-supervised regulatory review on independent regulatory...

The author of this article served as a member of a citizen board for five years prior to writing this article. A citizen board is comprised of nine part-time, unspecialized citizen members, and is the decision-making body for one of the most powerful administrative agencies in the state, the...