Agenda

In response to growing concerns about understanding the impact of regulation on consumers, business, and government, the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution have established the new AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. The Joint Center will build on AEI's and Brookings' impressive body of work over the past three decades that has evaluated the impact of regulations on the economy and suggested reforms that would enhance productivity and consumer welfare.

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Welcome
Michael H. Armacost, Brookings Institution

Introduction
Christopher C. DeMuth, AEI

Improving Regulation
HON. Fred Thompson, U.S. Senate

The Joint Center's Mission
Robert E. Litan, Codirector, Joint Center

New Research from the Joint Center
Robert W. Hahn, Director, Joint Center
Clifford Winston, Fellow, Joint Center

Assessing OMB's Second Report on the Costs and Benefits of Regulation
Robert W. Crandall, Fellow, Joint Center
Robert W. Hahn, Director, Joint Center
Robert E. Litan, Codirector, Joint Center
Randall Lutter, Fellow, Joint Center

Adjournment