Schivardi, Fabiano; Viviano, Eliana - Banca d'Italia - 2007
The 1998 reform of the Italian retail trade sector delegated to the regional governments the regulation of entry of … large retail shops. We use the local variation in regulation to determine the effects of entry barriers on firm performance … for a representative sample of medium and large retail outlets. Using a diff-in-diff approach, we find that entry barriers …