Regulatory Reform

A new institutional design is required to deal with retrospective review of regulations.

The SCRUB Act would help correct regulatory accumulation – but the bill could be improved.

The SCRUB Act would help eliminate duplicative rules through retrospective review.

The Regulatory Review features the debate over an independent process for reviewing existing rules.

Working paper says agencies have broad, but cabined, discretion to delay and defer.

Scholars suggest that easy access to information may not increase meaningful public engagement in policymaking.

Integrating employment effects into regulatory impact analysis could improve the public debate on regulation.

New study proposes a better way to take employment effects into account in rulemaking.

Traditional forms of analysis may underestimate unemployment costs, skewing cost-benefit analysis of regulations.

Quantitative risk assessment, currently used to evaluate environmental and health hazards, can also analyze regulations’ impact on jobs.

Lisa Robinson argues that recent high unemployment highlights the need to assess employment effects of regulation.

Debate over regulation’s effects on employment would benefit from better policy analysis.