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States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income distribution. We find that branch deregulation lowered income … inequality. Deregulation lowered income inequality by affecting labor market conditions, not by boosting the business income of …
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timing of bank deregulation, we evaluate the impact of liberalizing intrastate branching restrictions on the distribution of … income. We find that branch deregulation significantly reduced income inequality by boosting the incomes of lower income …
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In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure of Mexico's banks. For...
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Product and labor 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 … market deregulation, we then use our results to study two specific issues. First, to shed light on macroeconomic evolutions …
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business cycle conditions at the time of deregulation significantly affect adjustment. A reduction of firing costs entails …
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higher capital incomes. This increases inequality. To make this argument, we develop a tractable theory that links technology …
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This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different types of environmental policies (including taxes, subsidies, regulations, permits, and legal liability). All eight approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects,...
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This paper reviews a specific group of recent publications by Black, Fama, Hall, and Greenfield and Yeager that (i) encourage the relaxation of government controls on the banking industry, (ii) emphasize the possibility of an economy in which most transactions are carried out through an...
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Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. It tracks inflation-induced secular declines in the value of S …
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process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with …
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