Do Regulators Overestimate the Costs of Regulation?
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Keywords
benefit-cost analysis; cost estimation; ex ante; ex post; innovation; iterated expectations;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2012-03-08 (Central Banking)
- NEP-REG-2012-03-08 (Regulation)
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