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作者:Cornelius, Wayne A.; Salehyan, Idean
作者单位:University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要:This paper asks whether the migration decisions of unauthorized Mexican immigrants to the USA have been influenced by stronger US border enforcement efforts since 1993 that have sharply increased the physical risk and financial cost of illegal immigration. These measures were supposed to have decreased the probability of successful entry, thereby lowering the expected benefits of migration. We carried out a logistic regression analysis of data from a recent survey of 603 returned migrants and ...
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作者:Jaffe, Judson; Stavins, Robert N.
作者单位:Harvard University; Analysis Group Inc.
摘要:The US Office of Management and Budget introduced in 2003 a new requirement for the treatment of uncertainty in Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs) of proposed regulations, requiring agencies to carry out a formal quantitative uncertainty assessment regarding a regulation's benefits and costs if either is expected to reach $1 billion annually. Despite previous use in other contexts, such formal assessments of uncertainty have rarely been employed in RIAs or other regulatory analyses. We describe...
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作者:Kagan, Robert A.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:Intensified global economic competition, economic liberalization, and the rise of EU governance have led some observers to argue that there has been a trend toward the Americanization'' of the European way of law.'' This article addresses that contention, focusing on legal change in European member states. It first describes ways in which the American legal tradition has differed most sharply from the national legal systems of Western Europe (including Great Britain) and the political and econ...
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作者:Woll, Cornelia; Artigas, Alvaro
摘要:Business-government relations on trade issues are generally characterized as protectionist lobbying or - less often - lobbying for the liberalization of markets. However, with the evolution of the trading system, negotiations today concern not just market opening, but also the regulatory frameworks that structure international trade. This transformation has important consequences for the ways in which private interests can contribute to trade negotiations. Instead of simply trying to exert pre...
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作者:Hahn, Robert; Cecot, Caroline
摘要:We know relatively little about the economic effects of insignificant'' rules because they are not typically analyzed. Yet, these rules could be cumulatively important. We provide an economic analysis of one proposed rule to control hazardous air pollutants, which is not considered to be economically significant. This rule is of particular interest because it is one of the first in a long series of rules that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will consider for limiting hazardous air pollut...