“We Test”: An Imagined Regulatory Future

IF 2 4区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1017/bca.2022.23
C. Sunstein
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Abstract There can be a serious tension between the commitment to cost-benefit analysis and a realistic appreciation of the limits of official knowledge. Without significant efforts to reduce those limits, that analysis might be inadequately informed. Whenever regulators face significant informational deficits, or what is sometimes called “the knowledge problem,” it is important to explore tools that take advantage of what the private sector knows; market-friendly tools, such as economic incentives, have important advantages on that count. An advanced regulatory system should also try to reduce the knowledge problem through three routes: (i) creative use of notice-and-comment rulemaking; (ii) retrospective analysis of regulations and their costs and benefits; and (iii) advance testing, as a way of informing ex ante analysis. For the future, the most promising approach is (iii).
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“我们测试”:想象中的监管未来
在对成本效益分析的承诺和对官方知识局限性的现实认识之间可能存在严重的紧张关系。如果没有减少这些限制的重大努力,这种分析可能是不充分的。每当监管机构面临严重的信息赤字,或者有时被称为“知识问题”时,探索利用私营部门知识的工具就很重要;在这方面,经济激励等市场友好型工具具有重要优势。一个先进的监管体系也应该尝试通过三种途径来减少知识问题:(i)创造性地使用通知和评论规则制定;(ii)法规及其成本和效益的回顾性分析;(iii)提前测试,作为预先分析的一种方式。对于未来,最有希望的方法是(iii)。
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