Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Regulation
综述了政府监管成本与收益评估的方法创新，主要聚焦美国经济学视角，指出私人合规成本测量进展较大，而私人收益、社会成本与收益的系统量化仍较困难，并讨论了未来改进方向。
This article presents recent methodological innovations in the area of cost and benefit assessment of government regulation, in both a prospective and a retrospective sense. The focus of this review is mostly limited to the United States and from the Economics discipline's perspective. Much of the extant progress in measurement has occurred on the front of private costs of compliance. Private benefits, social costs, and social benefits remain much less systematically organized and more arduous to quantitatively assess, mostly due to the difficulty of standardizing partial and general equilibrium counterfactuals. We offer a discussion on potential future methodological improvements in cost–benefit analysis.