A Technical Guide To Assessing and Preparing Economic Impact Analysis of Regulatory Legislation

Senate rules require that each Senate committee include a regulatory impact evaluation with each public bill or joint resolution reported by the committee. The evaluation must include the paperwork impact, the impact on privacy, and the economic impact of reported bills. This guide covers the required economic impact evaluation and is designed to provide technical guidance in preparing and assessing such an evaluation. The guide performs three basic functions: (1) it is designed to assist congressional staffs in making a preliminary assessment of economic impact analyses; (2) it provides a listing and description of the kind of information that should be contained in a complete economic analysis; and (3) it provides guidance on the actual preparation of an economic analysis.

This publication brings together recent OECD research and analysis concerning methodological issues and country experiences with regulatory impact analysis (RIA). The collected papers cover a number of challenges to the effectiveness of RIA.

Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is the main instrument used by governments and regulators to appraise the likely effects of their policy proposals. This pioneering Handbook provides a comparative and comprehensive account of this tool, situating it in the relevant theoretical traditions and scrutinizing its use across countries, policy sectors and policy instruments. Comprising six parts, university researchers, international consultants and practitioners working in international organizations examine regulatory impact assessment from many perspectives, which include: • research traditions in the social sciences • implementation, regulatory indicators and effects • tools and dimensions such as courts and gender • sectoral case studies including environment, enterprise and international development • international diffusion in the European Union (EU), Americas, Asia and developing countries • appraisal, training and education. With its wealth of detail and lessons to be learned, the Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment will undoubtedly be of great value to practitioners and scholars working in governance, political science and socio-legal studies.

Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.