We exploit the exogenous variation in regional credit market contestability brought on by banking deregulation in the … United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We .nd that deregulation reduced the gender … the labor force. Deregulation also reduced wage inequality as women became more likely to work in the private sector, to …

deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main …

change borders to estimate treatment effects for 23 separate deregulation events. To distinguish real treatment effects from … in five out of the 23 deregulation events examined. Hinterland countiesʺ within the still-regulated states, but farther …-border spillover of deregulation effects may invalidate the empirical design …

is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … funds ; dynamic panel models ; spatial panel econometrics ; regional employment effects …