process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with …Does an intensification of competition among banks increase or decrease liquidity creation? By integrating the dynamic … facing each individual bank. We find that regulatory-induced competition reduced liquidity creation. Consistent with some …

firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter … deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less likely to survive the deregulation shock, even after controlling for various … charge after deregulation. " …

capacity on competition among" generators. We show that there may be no relationship between the effect of a transmission line …" in spurring competition and the actual electricity that flows on the line. We then investigate the" equilibria that are … relatively small investments in transmission may yield surprisingly large" payoffs in terms of increased competition …

competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower …

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing … theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for … competition materially boosts bank risk. With respect to the mechanisms, we find that competition reduces bank profits, charter …