regulation took effect. I find that strategic firms reduced their emissions by approximately 20% relative to other firms and …

discrimination, we find that tax policy loses much of its effectiveness at serving as a substitute for direct regulation. Moreover …

This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest … margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank …-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on bank entry and bank activities boost the cost of financial …

process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with … facing each individual bank. We find that regulatory-induced competition reduced liquidity creation. Consistent with some …

competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks …

The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …-prudential regimes internationally. For such regulation to be effective in controlling the aggregate supply of credit it must be the case …--on both questions, using a unique dataset. In the UK, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital …

labor supply in response to productivity shocks. Bank market integration thus contributes to a moderation of firm-level and …

-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …

policy implications as they imply that the same regulation will have different effects on bank risk taking depending on the …, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk …, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate …