Regulatory Burdens of the Administrative State

Conference dates: 

Friday, July 11 - Saturday, July 12, 2025

Regulatory accumulation imposes significant burdens on consumers and the US economy. This conference will bring together scholars studying the effects of regulation to advance scholarship and help inform public policy on this critical issue. Although the main focus will be the regulatory burden in US states, we are also open to papers that examine federal regulatory accumulation. A selection of papers from the conference will be considered for possible publication in a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Regulatory Economics.

1. Measuring the effects of regulation on outcomes like economic growth, business formation, and economic prosperity.
2. Estimating the effects of broad deregulatory reform like the REINS Act, or other unique state reforms like in Idaho, Ohio, and Virginia.
3. Examining the broad effects of specific regulations like occupational licensing, childcare regulation, or other state-specific regulation.
4. Devising new methodologies to measure regulatory burden and providing guidance for researchers and policymakers on how to use the new measurements.

Joe