Indicators of Regulatory Quality
Claudio Radaelli is the director of the Centre for European Studies (CES), Bradford University, and has completed several projects on the EU policy process, international taxation, and the politics of expertise in Europe funded by the ESRC, Nuffield Foundation, the British Academy, and the European Commission.
In 2001 he led a team of eight post-graduate researchers - including De Francesco - and completed a project on regulatory impact analysis (RIA) in comparative perspective funded by the Italian government.
In September 2002 he was appointed scientific expert on regulatory impact assessment (RIA) by the Italian cabinet office. Since then he has been working in a team of three independent experts. In 2002-2003 Professor Radaelli trained some 120 regional Italian RIA officers and the heads of the legislative affairs units of the central Departments. In September 2003 he won a tender of DG enterprise of the European Commission to assist in the preparation of a workshop on 'The involvement of the academic research community and private sector think tanks in impact assessment'.
Fabrizio De Francesco is a Research Fellow at the CES and the principal investigator of the research project. He has an MA from Bradford University, with a dissertation on impact assessment in comparative perspective. He has worked on several RIA projects funded by the Italian government, Italian regions, and Formez. Mr De Francesco has experience of RIA training at Italian regional and central departments. He is the author of several articles and chapters on RIA.
Hossein Jalilian has been active in quantitative research mainly in the area of economic development. He is at present a research fellow at UNU-WIDER where he is carrying out research on the interaction of globalisation with 'governance' including regulatory effectiveness. Prior to his present research he conducted a large DFID funded research on the impact of globalisation on poverty reduction within ASEAN region. His research emphasis in recent past has been on the interaction of 'governance' and institutional capacity on growth and poverty reduction. He has recently completed two joint authored papers looking into the interaction of regulation with economic growth as well as bureaucratic effectiveness on poverty; both of which are submitted for publication.
Sam Cameron is a reader in economics who has performed several socio-economic impact and cost-benefit analysis, statistical analysis, and surveys.
His main areas of research are economics of crime and punishment, economics of marriage, divorce, relationships, smoking and addiction, labour markets, and cultural economics currently on entertainment demand and ticket pricing.
Given his experience in surveys, he will design the questionnaire addressed to the 15 Member States. He will analyse indicators of regulatory quality with techniques of data analysis.
Scott Jacobs organized and directed from 1995 to January 2001 the first horizontal regulatory reform program of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, working with the 30 most industrialized economies. At the OECD, he worked with 30 countries to develop the first international standard on regulatory quality (OECD Recommendation on Improving the Quality of Government Regulation) and the OECD Reference Checklist for Regulatory Decision-Making, which is endorsed by all OECD countries. He led the research and wrote the 1997 OECD Report to Ministers on Regulatory Reform, with the first integrated framework for regulatory quality across governance, trade, and competition principles. Scott Jacobs led the development of the indicators of regulatory quality that now make up the OECD Regulatory Capacities Database.
He is currently a Director of Jacobs and Associates Europe Ltd, an Irish company and international consulting firm on regulatory reform and market governance.
Professor Dente has completed several projects on administrative reform in Italy and in comparative perspective, e-government, regulatory impact analysis, strategic planning and control. He held different positions in advisory capacity among which the Scientific Committee for the creation of a network of Evaluation Units in the National and Regional Administrations (2000-2003), the Committee for the strategic evaluation and control of State administrations, Prime Minister Office (2000-2001), and the Permanent Study Commission on Innovation in Public Administration Prime Minister Office (1997/2000). Professor Dente has been involved in a major project on the design of indicators for comparing administrative performance in EU countries.