We introduce a new dataset that reveals the relationship between laws passed by the US Congress and regulations issued by federal regulatory agencies. This dataset, which we call the Regulatory Authorities Dataset (RegAuthorities), elucidates the scope of statutes as they manifest themselves as...

The federal regulation and state enterprise (“FRASE”) index ranks the 50 states and the District of Columbia according to how federal regulations affect each state's economy. Over the past 80 years, the federal government has increasingly relied on regulations as its primary legal output....

We show that multilateral environmental regulations may affect trade flows differently than unilaterally generated regulations. Using the gravity equation, we test the effect on bilateral trade flows of increases in environmental regulation stringency ratings, taken from survey data, with a...