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02/10/2023

Product Spotlight: Use the RegData U.S. Regulation Tracker to visually assess the quantity of regulation in the Code of Federal Regulations on a daily basis, and interact with variables such as regulations targeting specific industries or the quantities produced by regulatory agencies at different points in time.

Track and visualize how the quantity of US federal regulation changes on a daily basis. See which federal agencies promulgate the most regulations, and which industries have the most restrictions.

02/08/2023

Congress needs to address the shortcomings of the US regulatory system with comprehensive regulatory reform.

See how this research utilizes our data to explore the need for regulatory reform. https://bit.ly/3XmZLAt

Americans expect federal regulation to accomplish many important things, such as protecting the country from financial fraudsters, preventing workplace injuries

02/03/2023

This research utilizes our data to measure the price effects of a variety of land-use regulations.

To varying degrees, most municipalities regulate urban development with zoning, density restrictions, and parking requirements. Such policies restrict the housi

01/30/2023

Product Spotlight: RegHub is QuantGov's premier tool designed to make our free data & documents as accessible as possible. It makes regulatory text easy to use for natural language processing, machine learning, and other computational analysis. https://www.reghub.ai/

Performance standards are typically viewed as a preferable regulatory approach to design standards. Presidential administrations and offices have consistently i

01/27/2023

Using our data, this research provides principles to avoid potential pitfalls when crafting performance standards, and help them to determine if performance standards are preferable to design standards given particular aspects of a regulatory issue.

Performance standards are typically viewed as a preferable regulatory approach to design standards. Presidential administrations and offices have consistently i

01/25/2023

Researchers examine RegData metrics of regulation for 23 different jurisdictions in the US and Australia and find a positive and significant correlation between regulatory volume and population in an introductory paper on RegData Australia. https://bit.ly/3QTE1tx

In this paper we introduce RegData Australia (RDAU1.0) and present some preliminary and comparative findings using this new panel. RDAU1.0 applies the RegData m

01/23/2023

Product Spotlight: State RegData employs the QuantGov platform to download and analyze both state regulations and statutes, turning thousands of pages of dense regulatory and statutory text into datasets, which each contain: general metadata, restriction counts, word counts, and industry relevance. https://bit.ly/3GTAuqK

01/20/2023

"[T]he wave of regulation that hit the airlines in the late 1970s as a result of the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978 was a success... according to research by Kenneth Button and David Christensen at the Mercatus Center."

This research utilized our data:

Over 60% of Southwest Airlines’ flights were canceled. The severe blizzard on the East led to abnormally high staffing shortages as some personnel were unable to make their routes, but SWA was unique in that their technology infrastructure failed to allow for all the required crew reassignments.

01/02/2023

Our tool cited at the Witchita Eagle: "In 2019, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University created a system to effectively track a state's regulatory burden & how those regulations can stifle investment and economic activity."

The Kansas Chamber of Commerce responds to Eagle editorial board urging a “No” vote on Question 1

12/30/2022

Product Spotlight: The State RegData data project quantifies regulatory and statutory activity across all 50 US States and the District of Columbia. This marquee data visualization allows users to interact with the data in a detailed manner. https://loom.ly/kEEJFd0

The State RegData data project quantifies regulatory activity across all US states. This marquee data visualization allows for an in-depth exploration of that data.

12/28/2022

Examine regulatory reform approaches in Australia through the lens of policy innovation with this research utilizing our data. https://loom.ly/daKSN3Y

The problem of regulatory accumulation has increasingly been recognized as a policy problem in its own right. Governments have then devised and implemented regu

12/23/2022

According to the research from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Mississippi has experienced the following regressive effects:

• 86,135 more people living in poverty
• 3.6% higher income inequality
• 904 jobs lost annually and 68 fewer businesses annually
• 7.35% higher prices
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New data shows that federal regulations have led to more people living in poverty, greater income inequality, fewer businesses, less jobs, and higher prices for consumers in Mississippi. According to the research from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Mississippi has experienced the fo...