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We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted … measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior … of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more …
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California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation …
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U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local …
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The paper argues that the weakest link principle, which has been widely used as a measure of ultimate owners' control rights, has a number of serious problems. A theoretically more satisfactory method of measuring control rights, based on voting power indices, is proposed, and the different...
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What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
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This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream …. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated … plants. On the other hand, we also find that transaction costs may have increased as a consequence of deregulation. …
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elastic to net post-tax real wages, and hence reduced by taxation. In a setting where preferences are isoelastic, deregulation … regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …
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We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
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We develop a model of sluggish firm entry to explain short-run labor responses to technology shocks. We show that the labor response to technology and its persistence depend on the degree of returns to labor and the rate of firm entry. Existing empirical results support our theory based on...
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, 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 …
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