In person icon The regulatory state in the face of crises and policy change

Abstract

We now live in an environment that has become very different from the one in which the regulatory state has been developed. The many crises and turbulence that we have been facing in the last 15-20 years bear the potential to alter the functioning of the regulatory state. Did the recent crises change the use of regulation and or (independent) regulators? Did they lead regulators’ political principals to increase their pressure on, or change their expectations of, regulators? Did this lead regulators to adapt their regulatory or communication practices? How have they dealt with increasingly visible trade-offs? Have new institutions emerged and come to compete or co-existing with IRAs? This panel explores the transformation of the regulatory state in light of the recent crises and turbulences.

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