Remarks before the Missouri Bankers Association Senior Bank Management Conference, Acapulco, Mexico, Jan. 12, 1999

Remarks before the Missouri Bankers Association Senior Bank Management Conference, Acapulco, Mexico, Jan. 12, 1999

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929 - a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...