This paper explores the role of microeconomic analysis in policy formulation by assessing how the regulatory impact …-quality economic analysis can help a regulation survive such challenges, particularly when the agency explains how the analysis … affected decisions. However, highlighting the economic analysis may also increase the risk a regulation could be overturned by …

2018 to promote more consistent quality and use of economic analysis in its decisions. The agency's reorganization …

removal of "economic" regulations in certain sectors; regulatory impact analysis (RIA) of new "social" regulations; and … retrospective analysis of existing regulations. This article reviews the rationale for each approach, the results to date, and the …

premised on a cost-benefit analysis performed by the agency, supported by two similar studies submitted by outside interests …