Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending …

, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information … impact of deregulation. This also means policies that change fuel prices can have substantially different effects on …

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local … granular bank-county-level data, we show that household consumption smoothing in response to the CTS was easier in financially …

In this article we investigate the deregulation efforts resulting from the 2015 transposition of the EU’s Transparency … the deregulation on average increase information asymmetry and reduce firm value. We find that this effect is stronger for …