Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>While evidence indicates that the notice and comment (N&C) process improves regulatory compliance by increasing trust in government, there is reason to doubt this mechanism’s viability in the digital realm. The lack of direct human interactions online can lead participating firms to feel unheard and unengaged. As a result, online N&C efforts can actually undermine firms’ views of the government’s regulatory authority and hamper efforts towards compliance. To address this potential for backlash within digital N&C, we pilot a Regulatory Room, an online space where firms’ representatives meet with legal experts to improve the quality of suggested revisions to draft regulations. Our randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Thailand tests the value of participation in the Regulatory Room relative to standard digital N&C for feedback on a regulation governing small hotels. Within the pilot, we find strong and consistent evidence that the Regulatory Room improves commenting firms’ own: a) views of the quality of the consultation process, b) perceived understanding of the draft regulation, and c) beliefs that their own submitted comments will be read and understood by government officials. With weaker statistical significance, we also find evidence of improvement in firms’ views of government’s regulatory legitimacy. Behaviorally, we find evidence that Regulatory Room participation improves the quality of firms’ submitted comments and the probability that a firm will submit a comment on the draft regulation to the digital platform. </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.theigc.org/publications/digital-consultation-firms-and-perception-governments-regulatory-legitimacy-piloting Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
