The SEC now is seeking public comment on how to improve its process for retrospective reviews of existing rules.

Inefficient and outdated policies, subsidized by US taxpayers in the 2008 Farm Bill at a cost of $307 billion, are once again up for approval.

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool used by the government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweigh their costs. In their new book, New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis,...

Under intense pressure from its political base, the Bush administration is at last taking budget cutting seriously.

The Bush administration should apply the same tool to controlling spending growth that it has used with skill in controlling the growth of regulation: cost-benefit analysis.

On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which passed by a large bipartisan majority in the Congress. The Act is designed to facilitate the equity funding of new companies. Recent research has documented that from 1980 through the 2008-09 recession new companies have been main drivers of job creation in the United States. 

Robert W. Hahn considers whether cost-benefit analysis should be used in regulatory policymaking.

This paper uses national data for the period 1960 to 2000 to estimate an aggregate private consumer demand for pharmaceuticals in the United States.