regulatory costs
(Mis)Estimating Regulatory Costs
EPA’s cost estimate for its mercury rule was way, way off.
In describing cost-benefit analysis to students, I’ve often told them that the “cost” side of the equation is pretty simple. And it does seem simple: just get some engineers to figure out how industry can comply and run some spreadsheets of the costs. But this seemingly simple calculation turns out to be riddled with uncertainties, …
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CONTINUE READINGSome Simple Arithmetic About Environmental Regulation and the Economy
In absolute terms, environmental compliance costs might be large, but relative to the economy as a whole, they’re not much more than a rounding error.
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