The Issues – Cost-Benefit Analysis
Often, governments will use cost-benefit analysis to make decisions about how far they’ll go to protect citizens. How they apply that analysis is a nuanced but important issue. The devil is in the details, and the details for economic analyses must be scrutinized.
Project Updates
- Letter to U.S. Parole Commission on Responding to Parole Violators
January 26th, 2012 - Obama Administration’s Retrospective Review Plan
May 27th, 2011 - Comments to Agencies on Retrospective Review
March 31st, 2011 - Value of Mortality Risk
January 21st, 2011 - Obama on regulatory review
January 18th, 2011 - View all project updates »
Publications
- Does Process Matter: Regulatory Procedure and Regulatory Output in the States
September 21st, 2011 - Can Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Policy Go Global?
August 29th, 2011 - 52 Experiments with Regulatory Review: The Political and Economic Inputs into State Rulemaking
November 16th, 2010 - Climate Change and Future Generations
September 22nd, 2010 - In the Regulatory Weeds of the Garden State: Lessons From New Jersey’s Administrative Process
September 1st, 2009 - View all publications »
News + Media
- A Year of Rethinking Regulations
January 17th, 2012 | Huffington Post - Reality ruins another GOP talking point
October 26th, 2011 | Washingtonian Monthly - Obama Wrote 5% Fewer Rules Than Bush While Costing Business
October 25th, 2011 | Bloomberg - The President’s Executive Order on Improving and Streamlining Regulation
July 11th, 2011 | The White House Blog - Statement on President Obama’s New Executive Order
July 11th, 2011 - View all: news coverage, press releases, fact sheets, and press kits