Citations & Impacts (112)
Openalex Citation
· 2026-08-28
US Regulatory Burden, Compliance Spending, and Market Structure
This article examines the effect of regulatory cost on market structure. Regulation been associated in a number of studies with market consolidation. However, fewer studies have explicitly examined regulatory burden through the mechanism of higher compliance labor costs. This article extends concepts recently developed in related literature, utilizing U.S. Census Bureau data in a novel way to meas…
News articles
· 2026-04-09
A Postcard From Abroad on Regulatory Simplification | The Regulatory Review
The article cites McLaughlin's RegData methodology for quantifying legislation as an influential approach to measuring regulatory complexity, appearing in The Regulatory Review (a policy-focused publication), though the article is authored by Veronica Taylor rather than McLaughlin.
News articles
· 2026-04-06
Overrules | National Affairs
The page cites a Stanford working paper by Christos Makridis & Patrick McLaughlin (February 2026) that uses RegData U.S. 6.0 to study regulatory stringency and industry performance; this is a citation to McLaughlin's RegData dataset work, matching work_id 25.
Openalex Citation
· 2026-03-04
Regulatory Rollback and the Smoking Tailpipe: Air-Quality Effects of Repealing Vehicle Emissions Testing
Openalex Citation
· 2026-01-20
Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights
Ahmed Al‐Hadi, Baban Eulaiwi, Hidaya Al Lawati, Grantley Taylor. Accounting and Finance. 2026
Openalex Citation
· 2026-01-01
Regulatory Stringency and Industry Performance: Evidence from RegData U.S. 6.0
Openalex Citation
· 2026-01-01
Revenue Motivated Zoning in Local Governments Evidence from Commercial Zoning Regulation and Sales Tax Authority
Lanjun Peng. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2026
Book Citation
· 2025-12-17
Guide to Global Leadership
Book: Guide to Global Leadership
Author(s): Stephanie Thum
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2025-12-17
URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=D72pEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA250&dq=%22QuantGov%22+McLaughlin&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&cd=1&source=gbs_api
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... quantgov.org/csv-download McLaughlin, P. A., Nelson, J., Strosko, S., & Stover, W. (2022c). RegData United States [Dataset]. https://www.quantgov.org/c…
Public comments
· 2025-09-15
Comment on FR Doc # N/A
Source: regs_supercorpus
Docket: DOJ-OLP-2025-0169
Posted: 2025-09-15
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its broader legal policy analysis. 14 Crime as an Economic Cost Driver Retail Theft and Direct Business Losses One of the most visible ways crime impacts competitiveness is through organized retail theft. The National Retail Federation has estimated losses exceeding $100 billion annually, …
Openalex Citation
· 2025-09-10
A Practical Measure of Red Tape
ABSTRACT Regulation can influence economic dynamism, the distribution of income, and various measures of economic welfare. Despite a substantial proportion of regulation in the United States originating at the state level, we are not aware of any comprehensive measure of excess regulation or “red tape” at the state level. We fill this notable gap by constructing a novel measure of state‐level red …
Openalex Citation
· 2025-04-14
Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Regulation
This article presents recent methodological innovations in the area of cost and benefit assessment of government regulation, in both a prospective and a retrospective sense. The focus of this review is mostly limited to the United States and from the Economics discipline's perspective. Much of the extant progress in measurement has occurred on the front of private costs of compliance. Private bene…
Openalex Citation
· 2025-03-01
When legitimacy and efficiency collide in the bifurcated world: The adoption of conduit acquisition in cross-border technological acquisitions
Chuanjia Li, Shixiang Wang. Asia Pacific Journal of Management. 2025
Openalex Citation
· 2025-02-22
Re-evaluating the labor market effects of occupational licensing: Longitudinal evidence across states
We present new data on regulatory restrictions across states and occupations between 2017 and 2022 to study the labor market effects of occupational licensing. First, we document three stylized facts: (a) regulatory restrictions across states and occupations have grown by nearly a factor of three since 2019, (b) increases in regulatory restrictions are concentrated in occupations with lower median…
Openalex Citation
· 2025-02-16
Major customers and carbon footprints along the supply chain
Saiying Deng, Tinghua Duan, Frank Weikai Li, Xiaoling Pu. Journal of Corporate Finance. 2025
News articles
· 2025-01-28
Illinois’ low social mobility: causes and cures
The Illinois Policy Institute report cites Mercatus Center's RegData snapshot on Illinois regulatory stringency (work_id 25: RegData 2.2), specifically referencing data on restrictive language terms across industries; this is a policy organization's use of McLaughlin's dataset to support a social mobility reform agenda.
Openalex Citation
· 2025-01-01
US Regulatory Complexity, Compliance Spending, and Market Structure
Openalex Citation
· 2024-11-03
Counting regulations and measuring regulatory impact: a call for nuance
Stuart Shapiro. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2024
Openalex Citation
· 2024-08-20
The real effects of M&As on targets’ peers
Abstract This paper studies the real effects of targets’ acquisitions on their peers through investigating the real earnings management (REM) behavior of the targets’ rivals following the mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Using a difference‐in‐differences design, we find that, on average, rivals of acquisition targets would engage in more REM after M&A announcements. We further find that within riv…
Openalex Citation
· 2024-08-20
The real effects of M&As on targets’ peers
Linda Y.L. Du, Wen Li, Jianfei Sun. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. 2024
Openalex Citation
· 2024-08-13
Regulation and Innovation Revisited: How Restrictive Environments Can Promote Destabilizing New Technologies
Previous literature offers conflicting findings on how the restrictiveness of the regulatory environment—the amount of rules that prohibit specific activities—affects innovation of firms. One camp suggests that restrictiveness circumscribes the range of available technological components and therefore decreases innovation. The other camp believes that restrictiveness can lead firms to seek new alt…
News articles
· 2024-08-08
Study: Washington state ranks No. 8 in the nation for red tape | Washington | thecentersquare.com
News article by Brett Davis citing Patrick McLaughlin as an author and director of the Mercatus Center study on state regulatory restrictions; the study uses RegData methodology (Work 25) to rank states by regulatory burden.
Book Citation
· 2024-06-27
Negotiating Legality
Book: Negotiating Legality
Author(s): Ji Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-06-27
URL: http://books.google.com/books?id=3LoJEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA184&dq=%22RegData%22+McLaughlin&hl=&as_pt=BOOKS&cd=7&source=gbs_api
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... McLaughlin and Oliver Sherouse, RegData US 3.1 Annual (dataset). QuantGov, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Arlington, VA, 2018. https://quantgov.o…
Openalex Citation
· 2024-06-14
Betting on success: Unveiling the role of local gambling culture in equity crowdfunding
Hui-Ching Hsieh, Dat T. Nguyen, Thien Le-Hoang Nguyen. Journal of Empirical Finance. 2024
Openalex Citation
· 2024-05-07
Blockchain adoption and operational performance: A secondary data analysis on effects and contingencies
Giovanna Culot, Matteo Podrecca, Guido Nassimbeni. International Journal of Operations & Production Management. 2024
Openalex Citation
· 2024-02-14
Rules as data
A. Damonte, Giulia Bazzan. Regulation & Governance. 2024
Public comments
· 2024-01-09
Stephen Matteo Miller
Source: regulations_gov
Doc type: Public Submission
Author/filer: Stephen Miller
Agency: OCC
Docket: OCC-2023-0008
Posted: 2024-01-09
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re 6 depicts the share of words in the Code of Federal Regulations on OCC capital regulation (Part 3, Title 12, Parts 1–199) and FDIC capital regulation (Parts 324 and 325, Title 12, Parts 300–399. The figure shows that capital regulation…
Openalex Citation
· 2024-01-01
Do Agencies Consider Distribution and Equity in their Rules?
Openalex Citation
· 2024-01-01
How State Occupational Licenses Affect Jobs and Salaries
Openalex Citation
· 2024-01-01
Divided We Fall: Congressional Cycles, the Stock Market and Firm Performance
Joshua Livnat, Amir Rubin, Dan Segal. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2024
News articles
· 2023-11-01
Lachlan Clark Research Fellow Saxon Davidson Research Fellow
IPA research paper cites RegData (Work 25: RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) as a tool for analyzing primary legislation, demonstrating McLaughlin's work being used in Australian regulatory reform analysis, but McLaughlin is not the author of this IPA document.
News articles
· 2023-09-12
Artificial Intelligence for Retrospective Regulatory Review | The Regulatory Review
The article by Sharkey and Mallett cites McLaughlin's RegData and QuantGov as tools used by the Transportation Department for retrospective regulatory review, matching his distinctive projects listed in the scholar profile.
Openalex Citation
· 2023-06-01
Compliance costs and productivity: an approach from working hours
News articles
· 2023-05-17
Biden's experience doesn't mean he can plan an economy
The Reason article by Bruce Yandle cites RegData research from the Mercatus Center to support claims about command-and-control regulation in the US, matching work_id 25 (RegData 2.2) which is McLaughlin's foundational dataset project.
Openalex Citation
· 2023-01-01
Regulatory Costs and Market Power
Shikhar Singla. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2023
Federal policy documents
· 2022-11-09
Senate JEC policy document cites RegData (Work 25) and QuantGov/FRASE Index (Work 62) as data sources for analyzing inflation, attributing these datasets to McLaughlin's work at Mercatus Center; McLaughlin is not the author of this Senate document.
Openalex Citation
· 2022-11-02
Public Opinion about Regulation
Sam Peltzman. The Journal of Law and Economics. 2022
Openalex Citation
· 2022-10-30
Regulation, entrepreneurship, and dynamism
Openalex Citation
· 2022-09-28
Consequences of state-level regulations in accounting, finance, and corporate governance: A review
Ahmed Al‐Hadi, Ahsan Habib. Advances in Accounting. 2022
News articles
· 2022-09-09
Ohio plans website to offer transparency to business regulations | Ohio | thecentersquare.com
The article cites the Mercatus Center's State RegData project (which matches work 25: RegData 2.2), analyzing regulations across states; this is a news article mentioning McLaughlin's research/dataset, not written by him.
News articles
· 2022-09-01
The End of History and The Last Man and Liberalism and Its Discontents | Cato Institute
The page cites RegData (work_id 25) as developed by Patrick McLaughlin at GMU's Mercatus Center in a Cato Institute publication; the citation is substantive but the page is not authored by McLaughlin.
Openalex Citation
· 2022-05-03
Shopping as locals: A study of conduit acquisition by multinational enterprises
Shixiang Wang, Jiang Wei, Minyuan Zhao. Journal of International Business Studies. 2022
Openalex Citation
· 2022-04-01
Regulation, entrepreneurship, and firm size
News articles
· 2022-01-28
Arizona's Army of Reformers is Defeating Red Tape | RealClearPolicy
The article cites Mercatus Center research (McLaughlin's RegData work) on Arizona's regulatory restrictions, though McLaughlin is not the author of this RealClearPolicy piece; authors are James Broughel and Susannah Barnes.
Openalex Citation
· 2022-01-13
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Other congressional
· 2022-01-01
Policy Solutions to Reduce Inflation
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to
workers and boosting the United States’ productive capacity and
economic growth.
Lower the Cost of Domestic Production through Deregulation
Another way to reduce inflationary pressures is to lower the cost of
domestic production, which would lead to increased output. The most
direct way policymak…
Other congressional
· 2022-01-01
Entrepreneurship and the Decline of American Growth
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Entrepreneurship and the Decline of American Growth | 14
years. Between 1970 and 1980 the number of restrictions increased by
57 percent, growing faster than in any other decade.22
The expansion of economic interventions was driven in part by the anti-
economic-growth movement in the 1960s and 1970s.…
Openalex Citation
· 2021-12-09
Drafting “better regulation”: The economic cost of regulatory complexity
Different public agencies are seeking to draft “better regulation”. Complex or poorly drafted norms are more difficult for economic agents to implement, tending to erode economic efficiency. The literature has so far concentrated on the analysis of regulatory complexity as a phenomenon related to the “quantity” of norms. This article guides the process of adopting new regulations, taking into acco…
Openalex Citation
· 2021-11-19
Regulatory Restrictions Across U.S. Protein Supply Chains
Aaron J. Staples, Dustin Chambers, Richard T. Melstrom, Trey Malone. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 2021
News articles
· 2021-10-06
The Next Economic Battle: Striving for Simplicity | RealClearPolicy
Richard Williams cites Dr. Patrick McLaughlin and his RegData program at Mercatus Center as the source for tracking federal restrictions; the citation matches Work 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) based on the substantive discussion of RegData methodology and findings.
Openalex Citation
· 2021-08-31
Statistical relationships between the rule-making activity of state bodies in Russia
Pavel Pavlov. Lomonosov Economics Journal. 2021
Openalex Citation
· 2021-08-31
Regulation and income inequality in the United States
Dustin Chambers, Colin O’Reilly. European Journal of Political Economy. 2021
Openalex Citation
· 2021-08-13
The economic theory of regulation and inequality
Openalex Citation
· 2021-06-23
Federal Regulation and Mortality in the 50 States
James Broughel, Dustin Chambers. Risk Analysis. 2021
News articles
· 2021-05-05
Iowa’s beer regulations rank average for nation, higher compared to nearby states | Iowa | thecentersquare.com
The article cites the Mercatus Center's State RegData 2.0 database and quotes Dustin Chambers discussing regulation metrics; while McLaughlin is not explicitly mentioned by name, RegData is one of his distinctive projects, and the research methodology aligns with his work on quantifying regulations.
Openalex Citation
· 2021-04-22
How many regulations does it take to get a beer? The geography of beer regulations
Abstract Although the influence of regulations on economic outcomes has been well documented, few studies have focused on the geography of regulatory burdens. The regulations confronting any supply chain can vary dramatically across legislative jurisdictions, as U.S. policy is enforced by overlapping federal, state, and local governments. We use a unique data set to explore state‐by‐state regulato…
Openalex Citation
· 2021-01-01
Toward a Formalization of Policy Analytics
Openalex Citation
· 2021-01-01
Political costs of disclosure
David Godsell. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2021
Committee reports
· 2020-12-14
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ral regulatory…
Public comments
· 2020-12-08
Comment on FR Doc # 2020-23888
Source: regs_supercorpus
Docket: HHS-OS-2020-0012
Posted: 2020-12-08
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Zero-Based Regulation
By James Broughel
Zero-based budgeting is a technique that requires departmental
managers to propose and justify their entire budget for the year. It
is a planning system that assumes the starting point for each year
is no budget, rather than the traditional …
Openalex Citation
· 2020-12-04
Impact of regulatory framework rigidity on poverty in the regions of Russia
Pavel Pavlov. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2020
News articles
· 2020-11-02
California the most regulated state in the nation | California | thecentersquare.com
The article cites RegData and QuantGov, McLaughlin's key projects created at the Mercatus Center, discussing State RegData's findings on California regulatory restrictions; this is a news article citing his work, not authored by McLaughlin.
Openalex Citation
· 2020-09-16
The political economy of Australian regulatory reform
Abstract The problem of regulatory accumulation has increasingly been recognised as a policy problem in its own right. Governments have then devised and implemented regulatory reform policies that directly seek to ameliorate the burdens of regulatory accumulation (e.g. red tape reduction targets). In this paper we examine regulatory reform approaches in Australia through the lens of policy innovat…
News articles
· 2020-07-01
Trump's Numbers July 2020 Update - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData dataset (work 25) in the Regulations section to track federal regulatory restrictions, attributing the data to QuantGov at the Mercatus Center.
Openalex Citation
· 2020-04-02
The cumulative cost of regulations
Bentley Coffey, Patrick A. McLaughlin, Pietro F. Peretto. Review of Economic Dynamics. 2020
News articles
· 2020-01-31
Analysis: Washington is one of the most regulated states in the U.S. | Washington | thecentersquare.com
The article by Bethany Blankley cites the Mercatus Center's State RegData platform and its analysis of Washington state regulations; this is a media mention of McLaughlin's RegData dataset work, not McLaughlin's own writing.
News articles
· 2020-01-28
Report: California most regulated state in the U.S. | California | thecentersquare.com
News article by Bethany Blankley citing the Mercatus Center's State RegData platform and analysis of California regulations; the RegData dataset (work_id 25: RegData 2.2) is the most directly matching work from McLaughlin's portfolio.
News articles
· 2020-01-27
Report: Texas fifth-most regulated state | Texas | thecentersquare.com
The Center Square article cites the Mercatus Center's RegData project (specifically State RegData and the broader RegData tool) as the basis for measuring Texas regulations; this aligns with Work 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) and McLaughlin's regulatory measurement work, though the article byline is by Bethany Blankley, not McLaughlin.
Federal policy documents
· 2020-01-01
Economic Report of the President 2020
This year, we use textual analysis of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
to provide a broader and longer perspective on the cumulative regulatory bur -
den. The CFR lists all regulations issued by Federal agencies and departments
that are currently in force at the time of its publication; it is updated annually.
RegData is a database applying textual analysis to the CFR that measures the
re…
Openalex Citation
· 2020-01-01
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Все статьи проходят обязательное рецензирование.Высказанные в статьях мнения и суждения могут не совпадать с точкой зрения редакции.Ответственность за подбор и изложение материалов несут авторы публикаций.
Openalex Citation
· 2020-01-01
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. Экономические и социальные перемены факты тенденции прогноз / Economic and social changes facts trends forecast. 2020
News articles
· 2019-12-05
Illinois ranks third in the nation for industry regulations | Illinois | thecentersquare.com
News article by Jim Moran citing the Mercatus Center's State RegData project, which is McLaughlin's work; the article explicitly mentions RegData and discusses findings from that dataset/project without McLaughlin being the bylined author.
News articles
· 2019-07-01
Trump's Numbers July 2019 Update - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites the QuantGov project at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, attributing daily tracking data to McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData 3.0 dataset; this is a news/fact-checking organization citing the scholar's work.
Citing your work
· 2019-06-25
Considering Cumulative Regulatory Costs in Economic Analysis | The Regulatory Review
lation. Considering new ways to model the effects of regulation on economic outcomes is an important area of research with substantial policy implications. One example is a 2016 working paper by Bentley Coffey , Patrick McLaughlin , and Pietro Peretto , which estimates the effects of federal regulation on value added to GDP with a panel dataset of 22 industries from 1977 to 2012. A key contributio…
Public comments
· 2019-06-07
Anonymous public comment
Source: regs_supercorpus
Docket: EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361
Posted: 2019-06-07
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because the composition
of the formulations is commercial-in-confidence
(NZ Parliament 2016). This
information”
situation is likely to be typical of many countries.
The decree that banned the use of glyphosate
formulations containing POEA in Italy named
55 formulations, in…
News articles
· 2019-04-01
Trump's Numbers, April 2019 Update - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData dataset (specifically RegData US 3.0 Daily and QuantGov tracking) in its factual analysis of Trump's regulatory record, appearing in both the body text and the sources section.
Intl Policy Influence
· 2019-03-15
Australian parliamentary document cites McLaughlin et al.'s State RegData dataset (RegData 2.2 panel dataset work) as a source for regulatory restrictions comparison across US states.
Public comments
· 2019-02-12
Comment Submitted by Mark Brnovich, Office of the Arizona Attorney General
Source: regulations_gov
Doc type: Public Submission
Author/filer: Mark Brnovich
Agency: CFPB
Docket: CFPB-2018-0042
Posted: 2019-02-12
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federal regulations may impede any state’s attempt to fully realize the potential of a
regulatory sandbox.
4 Promoting consumer-benefitting innovation at the state level will be
enhanced greatly by meaningful regulatory action at the…
News articles
· 2019-01-01
Trump's Numbers January 2019 Update - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData US 3.0 Daily dataset and QuantGov platform in the Regulations section to track federal restrictions; this is a media outlet citing the scholar's work, not the scholar's own writing.
News articles
· 2018-12-05
NRC Rules Would Benefit from OIRA Review - AAF
AAF policy brief by Bosch, Goldbeck, and Rossetti cites McLaughlin & Sherouse's RegData dataset (work 25) in a footnote to support claims about NRC regulatory burden growth since 1976.
News articles
· 2018-10-12
Fact check: Donald Trump's presidency by the numbers
USA Today fact-check article cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData 3.0 dataset and QuantGov project as sources for tracking federal regulation restrictions; the citation appears in both the main text and the sources section.
News articles
· 2018-10-01
Trump's Numbers October 2018 Update - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's RegData dataset (specifically RegData US 3.0 Daily and QuantGov platform) in the Regulations section to track restrictive language in federal regulations, appearing in both the body text and the sources list.
Hearings
· 2018-09-27
Examination of the Effect of Regulatory Policy on the Economy and Business Growth
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Member Heitkamp, and the not-in-attendance Members of the
Committee. I thank you for inviting me to testify this morning.
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Openalex Citation
· 2018-09-24
Regulation and poverty: an empirical examination of the relationship between the incidence of federal regulation and the occurrence of poverty across the US states
News articles
· 2018-07-31
Cutting Through the Rhetoric of Cutting Red Tape | The Regulatory Review
The article by Jodi L. Short cites and critiques McLaughlin's RegData database as a tool being marketed to state governments for regulatory decisions, making this a policy brief/think-tank piece that substantively discusses McLaughlin's work.
Public comments
· 2018-06-22
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Source: regulations_gov
Doc type: Public Submission
Author/filer: Stephen Miller
Agency: OCC
Docket: OCC-2018-0002
Posted: 2018-06-22
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the highly rated tranches also experienced increases in insolvency risk.
Recent studies have found that while banks satisfied regulatory capital requirements, which rely
on book values, market valuations of capital plunged well below b…
News articles
· 2018-04-01
Trump's Numbers (First Quarterly Update) - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's QuantGov project (a regulatory analytics platform) in the Regulations section, citing their work on tracking restrictive words in the Code of Federal Regulations; the article also lists their 2017 paper in the sources.
News articles
· 2018-01-01
Trump's Numbers - FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org cites McLaughlin and Sherouse's QuantGov platform and RegData 3.0 dataset in its fact-check article about Trump's regulatory record; the page is a news/fact-checking article that references their work but is not written by McLaughlin.
Federal policy documents
· 2018-01-01
Economic Report of the President 2018
e at
hand. Thus, the presence of measurement error requires careful consideration
of appropriate statistical analysis but does not necessarily eliminate the useful-
ness of these imperfect measures of regulation.
As an alternative solution to a lack of a good measure of total regulation,
researchers have introduced RegData, an index derived from a textual analysis
of the Code of Federal Regula…
Openalex Citation
· 2018-01-01
On the Rising Complexity of Bank Regulatory Capital Requirements: From Global Guidelines to their US Implementation
James R. Barth, Stephen M. Miller. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2018
News articles
· 2017-12-27
When Picking Apples on a Farm With 5,000 Rules, Watch Out for the Ladders - The New York Times
New York Times article cites McLaughlin's RegData Project (specifically RegData 2.2) by name and attributes the algorithmic analysis of federal regulatory restrictions on orchards to researchers from the center's RegData Project.
Other congressional
· 2017-10-16
REGULATIONS FROM THE EXECUTIVE IN NEED OF SCRUTINY ACT OF 2017
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with Federal regulatory
activity have increased significantly over the last 40
years.\7\ However, despite an increasing regulatory burden,\8\
the legislative structure has not meaningfully changed to
commensurately increase accountability. Over the course of the
twentieth century, there has been an e…
News articles
· 2016-07-17
Paul Ryan's task force: 'Government is the problem, not the solution' - Washington Times
Washington Times opinion piece cites RegData 2.2 (work 383) from Mercatus Center as a key study on regulatory cost impacts across 22 major industries; McLaughlin is not the author of this article (bylined to Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara).
Federal policy documents
· 2016-06-30
House committee document cites RegData 2.2 (work_id 25) by name as a data source for regulatory word counts; this is a substantive policy citation, not McLaughlin's own writing.
Federal policy documents
· 2016-02-22
Congressional testimony by Jared Meyer cites RegData (Work 25: RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) in a footnote reference; the page is not written by McLaughlin but substantively relates to his regulatory research dataset.
Federal policy documents
· 2015-12-07
Senator Rand Paul's press release cites RegData (work_id 25) via Regdata.org to compare U.S. regulatory burden (1.04 million regulations) against Armenia's; the page is a news/policy statement that references McLaughlin's regulatory measurement work but is not written by McLaughlin.
Federal policy documents
· 2015-05-08
This is testimony by Hester Peirce (not McLaughlin) that cites RegData (Work 25) and references Dodd-Frank restrictions (Work 63); McLaughlin is the creator of RegData and co-author of the Dodd-Frank work, so this page cites his research but is not authored by him.
Public comments
· 2014-11-07
Comment submitted by H. Dale Hall, Chief Executive Officer, Ducks Unlimited (DU)
Source: regs_supercorpus
Docket: EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880
Posted: 2014-11-07
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recent study using improved techniques documented about double the number that had
previously been estimated (new estimates of about 22,000 playas), and noted that more than 80%
were smaller than 5 acres in size (Bowen et al. 2010). Playas tend to occur in clusters of high
density in several d…
Citing your work
The Frontier Institute report cites State RegData (work 25) and references the FRASE Index (work 62) as tools developed by Mercatus Center researchers for quantifying regulatory burden; the page is a policy organization report that applies McLaughlin's regulatory measurement framework to Montana.
Citing your work
Atlas Network article cites and attributes the RegData project to Patrick McLaughlin (Mercatus Center senior research fellow and director of policy analytics), matching Work 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) and its distinctive project; McLaughlin is quoted discussing the RegData tool and regulatory reform efforts.
State policy & law
The page cites Mercatus Center's State RegData project (Work 25: RegData 2.2) when referencing the 2020 analysis of state regulations, attributing to McLaughlin's research via the Mercatus Center; however, McLaughlin is not the author of this legislative news page.
News articles
Hey…What Did I Miss? Archives - Page 2 of 14 - IPA - The Voice For Freedom
The page cites RegData Australia (the panel dataset on US Federal Regulations, Work 25) as a landmark project involving the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where McLaughlin works, but McLaughlin is not the author of this archive page.
News articles
Red Tape Stops 398,000 New Businesses, 894,000 Jobs, And $26 Billion In Wages
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) policy report cites RegData (Work 25: RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations), which is McLaughlin's distinctive dataset tool developed at the Mercatus Center, to analyze regulatory burden on Australian businesses; the page is authored by IPA, not McLaughlin.
News articles
Make Australia great again - IPA
The IPA article cites RegData (McLaughlin's distinctive dataset project, documented in Work 25) as a tool for measuring regulatory restrictiveness in Australian legislation, demonstrating substantive engagement with McLaughlin's research methodology.
News articles
Red Tape At Record High Across Australia
The IPA policy brief cites RegData (Work 25) as a method for measuring regulatory burden in Australia, attributing the approach to McLaughlin's research but not authored by McLaughlin himself.
News articles
The Guardian’s Attempted Smear of the IPA Proves Accuracy of Research
The IPA (Institute of Public Affairs) page cites and discusses RegData as McLaughlin's work in response to criticism; RegData is documented as Work 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations).
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Cutting Red Tape: RegData Applications in North America
The IPA Australia page cites and describes RegData's machine learning methodology for measuring regulatory restrictions; RegData 2.2 (work_id 25) is the panel dataset documenting this project.
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Morgan Begg, Research Fellow October 2019 THE GROWTH OF FEDERAL
The IPA report cites McLaughlin, Potts, and Sherouse's 'RegData Australia' working paper from the Mercatus Center, which corresponds to work_id 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations), the documented RegData project.
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RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations | Mercatus Center
This Mercatus Center research page describes RegData 2.2, which directly corresponds to Work 25 (RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) — a distinctive project/dataset authored by McLaughlin; the page is published by Mercatus Center (one of his affiliations) but presents the dataset itself rather than McLaughlin's own writing about it.
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Hacking the Regulatory State | Cato Institute
Cato Institute policy forum cites McLaughlin's RegData work (specifically the 2.2 panel dataset version referenced in the snippet as a 2014 Mercatus Center working paper on industry-specific regulations).
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The Great Reversal | Cato Institute
The Cato Institute article cites the Mercatus Center's RegData database (Work 25: RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations) as the source for measuring market restrictions through regulatory language analysis, but McLaughlin is not the author of this Cato piece.
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RegData,” accessed September 20, 2018, https://quantgov.org/regdata/history/ . [5] QuantGov, “The QuantGov Regulatory Clock,” accessed September 20, 2018, https://quantgov.org/charts/the-quantgov-regulatory-clock/ . [6] Patrick A. McLaughlin and Oliver Sherouse, “RegData 2.2: A Panel Dataset on US Federal Regulations,” Public Choice , Online First Articles (2018): 1–13, https://link.springer.com/a…
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Something Worse than the Administrative State | Cato Institute
The Cato Institute article cites McLaughlin et al.'s RegData database (work_id 25) as a measure of federal regulation, but McLaughlin is not the author of this Cato piece.