27 Jul 2007
Who Pays the Cost of Regulation?
Insights from corporate income tax incidence
by Richard Belzer
in Regulatory Economics
Regulation is widely understood as a tax on the activity or person being regulated. Where these activities repair genuine market failures, benefits from regulation may result. If there are benefits from, say, automobile safety regulation, one would expect the beneficiaries to be persons who otherwise would have been killed or injured at the pre-regulatory safety level.
But what about the costs of regulation? Who bears them? More...
19 Sep 2006
Agency Responses to NAS Questions on Risk Assessment Practice
by Richard Belzer
in Information Quality, Regulatory Science
In June, the ad hoc National Academy of Sciences committee empaneled to review OMB's proposed risk assessment guidance asked several affected federal agencies to provide comments.
Neutral Source has copies of these comments in our Library.
More...22 May 2006
The Ambiguous Line Between Science and Policy:
The Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse
by Richard Belzer
in Information Quality, Peer Review, Regulatory Science
The Associated Press reported
on May 18 that a new study in the peer reviewed journal Animal
Conservation has found "for a second time" that "the
Preble's
meadow jumping mouse is distinct
from other types of mice and deserves federal protection." The first
half of this statement is arguably scientific, but the second
half is policy. The AP's headline writer confuses
these distinct functions by implying that it is the role of scientists
to make legal determinations about endangered species: "Scientists:
Controversial Mouse Deserves Federal Protection".
More...
5 Apr 2006
Fishy Chinook Salmon Data
by Richard Belzer
in Information Quality, Regulatory Science
A recent news report highlights why high quality information is essential for the public to understand ecosystem issues, and for government officials to make informed decisions. More...
15 Mar 2006
Welcome to the Neutral Source Blog
by Richard Belzer
in Corrections, Events, Glossary, Information Quality, Legislation, Litigation, Peer Review, People & Institutions, Regulatory Economics, Regulatory Policy, Regulatory Science, Welcome
Neutral Source opened for business on the Ides of March 2006. More...
