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Regulatory Impact Assessment

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If regulation is often perceived as a tool to increase welfare, it is not infrequent that it leads to unintended consequences; examples are numerous. The purpose of regulatory impact assessment is precisely to help political decision-makers to identify whether and how to regulate while also defining a conception of the public interest that could then be debated. This entry will explain the logic and the development of RIA.

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  1. Law School, CRDP, University of Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France

    Régis Lanneau

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Lanneau, R. (2018). Regulatory Impact Assessment. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_649-1

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    Regulatory Impact Assessment
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