Ex post law evaluation from legislative institutions

This seminar discussed how ex post law evaluation fits into the broader regulatory governance cycle, in light of the 2012 Recommendation of the OECD Council on Regulatory Policy and Governance.

Regulatory Policy: Chile

This page presents latest developments in Chile: the assessment of ex post law evaluation with recommendations related to institutional, methodological and governance issues, as well as to seminars that took place throughout 2012.

Better Regulation in Europe: Belgium

The EU Better Regulation project is a partnership between the OECD and the European Commission. It draws on the initiatives for Better Regulation promoted by both organisations over the last few years.

Cities, Climate Change and Green Growth

Cities are home to over half of the world’s population. They characterise many of today’s global economic and environmental challenges and deliver cost-effective policy responses.

Brazil: Enhancing audits of government reports

The OECD held a week-long series meetings with the Brazil’s Supreme Audit Institution (Tribunal de Contas da União or TCU) to present the preliminary main findings and policy recommendations of its peer review of the TCU audit of the year-end government report (Prestação de Contas da Presidenta de República).

Framework for Regulatory Policy Evaluation

An ongoing project aims to develop options for measuring regulatory performance and to provide consolidated information on measuring practices in a number of OECD countries.

Publications on Measuring Regulatory Performance

This page provides a list of all the publications, surveys and policy briefs that were produced by the OECD Division on Regulatory Policy in the context of the programme on Measuring Regulatory Performance.

The economic impact of regulatory policy

This study provides a critical literature review of the theory and quantitative evidence of the impact of regulatory policy. It surveys the literature on existing attempts at measuring the contribution of regulatory policy to improved performance.

Evaluating regulatory management tools and programmes

This paper examines country practices for measuring the performance of regulatory policy, and develops options for a set of indicators that OECD countries can use for their regulatory policy evaluation. It appraises a large number of regulatory indicators by using a set of criteria, suggesting how and when they should be adopted, and for which purpose.

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Evaluating the impact of regulation and regulatory policy

This paper develops a framework for systematically evaluating the performance of regulations and regulatory policies. It discusses the complexity of attributing changes in economic or welfare outcomes to changes in regulation and regulatory policy and shows the categories of measures for evaluating regulatory policies.

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