Regulatory Strategy & Economic Analysis
Service / Economic Consulting
Global Economics Group’s experts offer a wealth of diverse experiences and specialized knowledge in regulatory matters.
Our team includes professionals who have worked within federal agencies, preparing economic analyses for proposed rules and guiding academic centers focused on studying the rulemaking process. We leverage this expertise to:
1. Via comment letters, assist clients in responding effectively to rulemaking proposals 2. Navigate the intricacies of the regulatory process
3. Develop robust compliance programs for managing existing regulations.
Our comprehensive approach helps clients stay ahead of regulatory challenges and optimize their compliance strategies.
Sample of Engagements
Capital, Credit, and Treasury Management
Federal Trade Commission
Through a comment letter and subsequently in live testimony before an FTC appointed administrative law judge, successfully argued that the FTC inaccurately concluded that the rule would not have a significant impact on the economy. (Negative Option Rule)
Food and Drug Administration
Through a comment letter, quantitatively demonstrated that the relative magnitude of the proposed rule’s costs and benefits were in fact reversed once the rules effects on laboratory developed tests leaving the market were accurately measured.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Our comment letter prompted the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to reconsider a proposed rule regarding Land Acquisitions and Class III Tribal State Gaming Compacts as not economically significant.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Our comment letter with Craig Lewis, former SEC chief economist, formed the basis for a subset of lawmaker questions for SEC officials posed in congressional hearings regarding a significant set of costs missing from the SEC’s own economic analysis of a proposed rule on position reporting on large swap positions and the costs it would impose on activist investors and corporate governance.
Team
Andrew Branion
Principal
Financial Services Consulting
Christopher Carrigan
Principal
Economic Consulting
Steve Dickerson
Principal
Financial Services Consulting
Mark L. Frigo
Advisory Board
Economic Consulting
David Onorato
Principal
Financial Services Consulting
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