What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better … exogenous variation in regulation generated by the interaction of reform and its institutional determinants, we find a …

We assess how banking competition will be affected by the process of deregulation and integration in European financial …

profits. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …

(deregulation) and improving contractual enforcement (legal reform). Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of … deregulation, as it preserves incumbents' rents, while at the same time allowing the less efficient among them to transfer control …

Product and labour market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … regulation as determining both the entry costs faced by firms, and the degree of competition between firms. We think of labour …

This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation and market integration policies on the structure of European banking …