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Administrative Initiatives to Advance Retrospective AnalysisArthur G. FraasWorking Paper 25-26 November 2025Resources for the FutureiAbout the AuthorArthur G. Fraas is a visiting fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). At RFF, Fraas works on a variety of issues related to energy and the environment, including retrospective analyses of major environmental rules, the treatment of uncertainty in regulatory analysis, the regulation of utility-scale renewable energy projects, and issues and tradeoffs with energy efficiency regulations. He retired in 2008 from the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) after serving 21 years as chief of the Natural Resources, Energy, and Agriculture Branch at the US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Before joining the OMB, Fraas was a senior economist at the Council on Wage and Price Stability, a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, an assistant professor of economics at the US Naval Academy, and a staff economist with the Federal Reserve System. He graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering physics and earned his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.About RFFResources for the Future (RFF) is an independent, nonprofit research institution in Washington, DC. Its mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement. RFF is committed to being the most widely trusted source of research insights and policy solutions leading to a healthy environment and a thriving economy. Working papers are research materials circulated by their authors for purposes of information and discussion. They have not necessarily undergone formal peer review. The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and may differ from those of other RFF experts, its officers, or its directors.Sharing Our WorkOur work is available for sharing and adaptation under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. You can copy and redistribute our material in any medium or format; you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, and you may not apply additional restrictions. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.Resources for the FutureiiAbstractOver the past 40 years, regulatory agencies have prepared regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) for their proposed and final major regulations. This prospective practice is fully embedded in agency rulemaking processes. However, robust retrospective analyses of existing rules are rarely performed, despite the documented benefits. Re