FCC Has Options on Economic Analysis, After Creation of OEA, TPI's Lenard Says
A key provision in the staff report that led to creating an FCC Office of Economics and Analytics is a line that OEA should “produce a separate, non-public memorandum on economic issues to accompany documents circulated to the Commission,” blogged…
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Technology Policy Institute Senior Fellow Tom Lenard. Commissioners approved creating the office on a 3-2 party-line vote last week (see 1801300026). The plan “is designed to encourage the policy-making Bureaus to include economic considerations throughout the policy development process, while also providing for direct communication of economic views to commissioners,” Lenard wrote. An alternative would be for the FCC to publish a preliminary regulatory impact analysis for every proposed new rule and a final RIA for every issued rule, he said.