The growing impact of regulations on the economy has led both Congress and the
Administration to search for new ways of reforming the regulatory process. Many of these …

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Efficient environmental regulation requires empirical estimates of the benefits and costs of
environmental standards and policies. In the last 25 years, economists have made …

Such questions have become very important in recent years as both political parties have
pushed for improving the t• t tions performance of government. Shortly a: fiter: it came into …

Almost since its inception, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using
analytical techniques related to the concept of balancing benefits and costs. As a result of …

The use of cost-benefit analysis in agency decisionmaking has been hailed as the cure for
numerous dissatisfactions with governmental regulation. Using this form of economic …

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting programmatic'
economic analyses,'also known as Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs), to assess the …

This book examines the analytical and empirical topics of real world economic analyses, as
well as a number of technical issues and other challenges that arise frequently in applying …

One of the most contentious issues in contemporary debates over environmental policy is
whether regulators should use cost-benefit analysis in evaluating their decisions. Cost …

Over the last two decades, the environment has become a major concern for all developed
nations. An increasing amount of national resources is being expended to address …