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Author : Robert William Hahn Publisher : American Enterprise Institute Page : 140 pages File Size : 54,5 Mb Release : 2000 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : 0844741221
Reviving Regulatory Reform by Robert William Hahn Pdf
This study into regulatory reform shows that technological impacts on the economic benefits and costs of regulation and a deeper understanding of the social effects of the regulatory institution are driving policymakers to question the familiar and to propose daring changes.
Reviving Regulatory Reform by Marlo Lewis,Competitive Enterprise Institute Pdf
"This report has a twofold purpose: reinvigorate public debate on regulatory reform, and help policymakers fashion a more affordable, effective, and accountable regulatory system. The report is organized as follows. Section II examines the role of regulatory policy in sabotaging the 1990s economic boom. It finds that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations, which subjected the telecommunications industry to a "what's yours is mine" regime of infrastructure socialism and price control, inflicted trillion-dollar losses on an industry that was a key driver of the nation's economic growth. Regulatory excess contributed to and prolonged the recession. The section concludes that Congress and the president, who are entrusted with stewardship of the U.S. economy, cannot afford to leave major regulatory decisions in the hands of unaccountable bureaucrats. Section III tackles head on the opinion that regulatory reform is a pipedream--a thankless quest fraught with political peril and little chance of success. The chapter argues that although reformers in the 104th, 105th, and 106th Congresses failed to establish cost-benefit analysis and risk-assessment as touchstones of regulatory decision-making, they also achieved some notable successes. The Unfunded Mandates Relief Act (UMRA) has discouraged Congress from imposing new regulatory burdens on state and local governments. The Regulatory Flexibility Act, as amended by Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) and buttressed by President Bush's Executive Order 13272, has, in some measure, reined in regulatory costs and agency discretion. The section recommends that future reform efforts be clearly based on three recognized principles of good government: cost disclosure, political accountability, and competition. Section IV examines the basic flaws of the current process. Regulatory costs are large, growing, and, what is more disturbing, uncontrolled. Federal fiscal discipline is indeed weak, but federal regulatory discipline is practically non-existent. Many regulations function as implicit taxes, with far-reaching effects on consumer prices, employment, and innovation. Yet, nothing in the current process requires or even allows policymakers to make explicit choices about how much of the public's resources regulatory agencies should control, or how regulatory authority should be allocated among alternate uses of the same resources. Moreover, most regulatory decisions are made by bureaucrats--officials over whom "We, the people" have little, if any, control. Americans live under a constitutionally dubious regime of regulation without representation. Section V surveys initiatives reformers have proposed, adopted, or enacted during the past three decades, and identifies two main types: policing reforms and checks and balances reforms. Policing reforms aim via rules of rulemaking and centralized review to regulate the regulators. Checks and balances reforms seek to increase Congress's responsibility for regulatory decisions, create inter-agency competition, or foster competition between agency experts and outside experts. Both types will be needed to make the regulatory system more affordable, effective, and accountable. Section VI outlines steps to liberate the telecom industry from infrastructure socialism. Congress should amend the Telecommunications Act to phase out forced access regulation and price controls as quickly as possible. Section VII discusses several near-term, mid-term, and long-term options for improving the regulatory process. Because of its complexity and controversial character, the most ambitious long-term reform--regulatory budgeting--is discussed separately, in section VIII. The most important recommendations for policymakers presented in sections VII and VIII may be summarized as follows: (1) Make agencies compete for the right to score the costs and benefits of their regulatory proposals ... (2) Require congressional approval before rules are effective ... (3) Undertake pilot projects to explore the feasibility of regulatory budgets ... --Competitive Enterprise Institute web site.
OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform in the United States 1999 by OECD Pdf
This report presents an integrated assessment of regulatory reform in framework areas such as the macroeconomic context, the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and integration of market openness principles in regulatory processes.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Publisher : Unknown Page : 320 pages File Size : 44,7 Mb Release : 2011 Category : Law ISBN : MINN:31951D03586517P
The Views of the Independent Agencies on Regulatory Reform by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf
S. 59, Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999, and Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis Legislation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs Pdf
Author : J. Luis Guasch,Pablo Tomas Spiller Publisher : World Bank Publications Page : 478 pages File Size : 48,5 Mb Release : 1999-01-01 Category : Political Science ISBN : 0821347594
Managing the Regulatory Process by J. Luis Guasch,Pablo Tomas Spiller Pdf
'...developing countries, complementing their far-reaching privatization programs, are engaged in deregulating various sectors of their economies and devising new regulatory frameworks for others, particularly the utilities sectors.' As economies become more open, pressures on countries to become more competitive drive the call for regulatory reform to reduce costs and foster increased productivity, competitiveness, and growth. This report provides an overview of the costs and benefits of regulation throughout the world. It provides case histories of regulation in different countries, developed and developing and in various sectors, such as, transportation, utilities, and power. It presents different strategies that were employed. Furthermore, it identifies lessons learned and lays the foundations for a best practice scenario for other countries to adopt. While the challenges to regulatory reform are considerable, so are the efforts that developing countries are making to face them. These lessons, when properly adapted to each country's own environment, can significantly increase the likelihood of effective regulation.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs Publisher : Unknown Page : 172 pages File Size : 42,8 Mb Release : 2003 Category : Law ISBN : PURD:32754077071169
How to Improve Regulatory Accounting by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs Pdf
Japan's Economic Revival by D. Citrin,A. Zanello Pdf
This book focuses on Japan's recent recovery from a decade-long stagnation, with particular attention to the unfinished policy agenda and the international spillovers of Japan's policies, through background studies (both analytical and descriptive) by IMF economists.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs Publisher : Unknown Page : 108 pages File Size : 51,9 Mb Release : 2002 Category : Business & Economics ISBN : PSU:000049650327
The cost of regulation to small business by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Workforce, Empowerment, and Government Programs Pdf
Comparative Governance Reform in Asia by Clay Wescott,Bidhya Bowornwathana Pdf
Features chapters that analyze and compare the experiences of Asian countries in carrying out governance reforms. This book tackles such questions as: how common reform packages designed for developed countries are implemented in developing countries? What happens in the reform diffusion process? And what are the obstacles to reform success?
Reviving the American Dream by Alice M. Rivlin Pdf
The American dream is fading: for nearly two decades, the economy has been performing below par, the quality of life has deteriorated, and the government has not confronted the public problems that concern citizens most. In this provocative book, Alice Rivlin offers a straightforward, nontechnical look at the issues threatening the American dream and proposes a solution: restructure responsibilities between the federal and state government. Under her plan, the federal government would eliminate most of its programs in education, housing, highways, social services, economic development, and job training, enabling it to move the federal budget from deficit toward surplus. States would pick up these responsibilities, carrying out a "productivity agenda" to revitalize the American economy. Common shared taxes would give the state adequate revenues to carry out their tasks and would reduce intrastate competition and disparities. The federal government would be freer to deal with increasingly complex international issues and would retain responsibility for programs requiring national uniformity. A primary federal job would be the reform of health care financing to ensure control of costs and to mandate basic insurance coverage for everyone. Published in the summer of 1992, Reviving the American Dream was read by presidential candidate Bill Clinton; by year's end, President Clinton appointed its author, Alice Rivlin, as deputy budget director. Today, the ideal in Rivlin's book—and Rivlin herself—are having an impact inside the administration. Selected as one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Books of 1993
