Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts
分析了美国国会提出的监管改革提案，这些提案旨在增加经济学在监管政策制定中的作用，通过改进成本效益测试和促进无偏风险评估来提高政策效率。
Regulatory reform proposals before Congress would potentially increase the role of economics in regulatory policymaking. These reforms seek to override existing legislative mandates, which usually prohibit economic trade-offs and have often led to inefficient expenditures. Proposed legislation would preempt these requirements and improve benefit-cost tests, making economic assessment a focal point of regulatory policy debates. Other reforms, such as the promotion of unbiased risk assessment and offsetting risk consequences of regulations, would also promote more efficient policies. Some less desirable proposals would largely serve to increase the transactions costs of issuing new regulations.