Regulations intended to lessen risks of accidents and illness ordinarily impose compliance costs on regulated entities and on rulemaking agencies. In return, society gains numerous benefits, most notably the avoidance of fatalities, injuries and disease, and in some instances a reduction in property damage. Promulgation of such regulations is a...
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- Publication Date: September 28, 2011
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis, Discount Rate, Regulatory Analysis, Risk Assessment, Valuation of Human Life
- Publication Date: February 28, 2012
- Tags: Congress, Cost Benefit Analysis, Regulatory Analysis
Cost/benefit analysis1 may ordinarily be applied by an agency to a regulatory action, except when Congress has forbidden its use or has specified, in the authorizing legislation, the precise regulatory outcome Congress desired. Any legislative directive short of complete specificity...
- Publication Date: August 13, 2012
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis, Regulatory Analysis
Federal agencies must frequently weigh competing health, safety, resource management, environmental, economic, and other societal interests when seeking to achieve a prescribed statutory objective. Wise decisionmaking presupposes that the potential benefits and costs of the actions under consideration will be identified, will be quantified if feasible, and will be appraised in relation to each...
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: January 23, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: February 15, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis
The linked manuscript is Curtis Copeland's draft report for the Benefit-Cost Analysis at Independent Regulatory Agencies project.
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: February 15, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis
The linked document is the appendix to Curtis Copeland's report in the Benefit-Cost Analysis at Independent Regulatory Agencies project.
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: February 26, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis
Comment from Senior Fellow Peter Strauss on the draft recommendation and consultant report for the Benefit-Cost Analysis at Independent Regulatory Agencies Project
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: February 28, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: March 8, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis, Science
Minutes from the September 24, 2012 Meeting of the Committee on Regulation (on the Science in the Administrative Process and Benefit-Cost Analysis at Independent Regulatory Agencies projects).
- Committees: Regulation
- Publication Date: March 27, 2013
- Tags: Cost Benefit Analysis