10. How to analyse regulation’s benefits and costs?
Benefits resulting from regulation are the main reason of its adoption
and, when trying to identify them, we must remember the goal of the
regulation or, in other words, the processes to be improved by the
regulation or problems it is going to solve. During the analysis of
benefits, we must:
• Establish how the proposed regulation will lead to achieving the
expected goals,
• Indicate the source of benefits associated with the new
regulation,
• Indicate the direct and indirect benefits associated with the
proposed regulation,
• Having identified the direct and indirect benefits, estimate their
value.
Tip: Yardsticks adequate for the description of the issue should be used. If the
regulation impact on employment is done, we must state the number of jobs to be
created as a result of the new regulation. However, if the regulation is about
pollution levels, we must state the expected reduction of contaminants emission
levels.
The costs of regulation comprise all the outlays involved in having the
new regulation or policy implemented and paid by individuals or
organisations covered by the new regulation. When analysing the costs,
we must keep in mind the regulation’s goal and all the activities to be
carried out by the public and private parties in connection with the new
regulation. And we must consider the value of the possibilities that
might be lost as a result of the new regulation or policy.
First, the cost analysis and measurement should define the way in which
the proposed regulation will lead to reaching the adopted goals. This
requires identification of activities to be carried out by parties covered
by the regulation.
Subjects implementing the new regulations will have to get familiar
with them and this increases training expenditures or even hiring new
staff. It may also require buying new equipment, or external consultancy
services. Public administration may also need to invest in training and
equipment when implementing and carrying out new regulations.
We must never forget about indirect costs which may take various
forms, among them, a limited selection on the market or lower
innovativeness.
And we must always try to present costs in numbers, e.g., state the
number of man/hours required to train the workers or the costs of
equipment to be purchased, etc.
If specific numbers are not available to describe the regulation cost, we
must state the maximum and minimum cost and the most probable,
estimated values. When we make a qualitative analysis, a SWOT
analysis may be very helpful.
Benefits—preliminary
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Costs—preliminary
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