Strategy and analysis consulting
in regulation, risk, economics, and information quality

Science, risk assessment & ​benefit-cost analysis

• ​Air pollutants
• Chemicals, including ‘green chemistry'
• Drinking water contaminants
• Economic modeling
• Environmental justice
• Facility permitting
• Immigration
• Hazardous waste cleanup
• Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) toxicological assessments

• Patent rules and procedures
• ​Scientific peer review policies, procedures, and practices
• Social policy (juvenile justice, education)

Information quality

• Federal Information Quality Act error correction petitions and appeals
• Governmeny-wide and agency-specific information quality guidelines development, implementation, and agency compliance
• Quality standards for third-party information disseminated by federal agencies

Centralized regulatory review and related policies and procedures

• Procedures and practices under Executive Orders 12,866 and 13,563
• Government-wide standards for regulatory benefit-cost analysis
• Agency compliance with minimum requirements and encouragement of best practices
• Regulatory Flexibility Act analyses

Paperwork Reduction Act

• Agency and OMB procedures and practices
• Information Collection Requests (ICRs)
• Survey research methods
• Statutory improvement

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Wine Economics

Q1: What is the most interesting field outside of government regulation for applying the principles and methods of economics?

A1: Baseball.

Q2: What is the second-most interesting field?

A2: Wine, of course. It is among the most unusual of products, for there are few objective attributes that distinguish a classic wine from plonk.

The supply side is intensely interesting, and in the United States it is subject to 50 different state regulatory regimes. (See the premise in Q1 above.)

As for the demand side, res ipsa loquitur.

Richard Burton Belzer
Ch. Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon, 2002
May 8, 2010