Regulation
A New Executive Order for Improving Federal Regulation? Deeper and Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis
A New Executive Order for Improving Federal Regulation? Deeper and Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cass R. Sunstein, Robert W. Hahn
At the time of this paper, many policies in the US were performing poorly against cost-benefit analyses. The authors investigate institutional reforms to mitigate this problem, in particular advocating a stronger commitment to cost-benefit analyses as a diagnostic of good policy.