Choosing How to Regulate

61 Pages Posted: 16 Apr 2004

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Andrew P. Morriss

Bush School of Government & Public Service / School of Law; PERC - Property and Environment Research Center

Bruce Yandle

Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics

Andrew Dorchak

Case Western Reserve University Law Library

Date Written: April 2004

Abstract

In this Article, the authors survey how agencies create substantive regulations through traditional rulemaking, negotiated rulemaking and litigation. Using public choice analysis, the Article relates agency choice to the agency's incentive structure. The Article also shows how the different forms of regulatory activity influence the content of agency regulations. Using a case study of EPA's regulation of heavy duty diesel engines, the Article examines EPA's choices over 30 years as a means of testing the proposed theory. Finally, the Article concludes with a critique of allowing agencies to choose how they will regulate because it allows agencies to evade constraints imposed by Congress and the President and so diminishes political accountability.

JEL Classification: K23, K32

Suggested Citation

Morriss, Andrew P. and Yandle, Thomas and Dorchak, Andrew, Choosing How to Regulate (April 2004). Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-3, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=530163 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.530163

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Thomas Yandle

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Andrew Dorchak

Case Western Reserve University Law Library ( email )

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