Latin America faces a growing concentration of banking markets, situation that worries both the public and the media for its potential impact on competition, access to credit at competitive rates, and thus the potential impact on its economic and social development. This paper provides a brief...

Because California was a pioneer in the development of intrastate branching, we use its experience during the 1920s and 1930s to assess the effects of the expansion of large-scale, branch-banking networks on competition and the stability of banking systems. Using a new database of individual...

In 1997 former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker posed a question about the commercial banking system he said he could not answer. The industry was under more intense competitive pressure than at any time in living memory, Volcker noted, “yet at the same time the industry never has...

Economists have often argued that "pay for performance" is the optimal compensation scheme. However, use of the simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been in decline in manufacturing in recent decades. We show both theoretically and empirically that these changes are due to...

Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of product market competition on the explicit compensation packages that firms offer to their executives. In order to measure the net effect of competition we use two different identification strategies. The first exploits cross sectoral variation in...

This paper studies the effect of deregulation and increased product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their executives. We use a panel of US executives in the nineties and exploit the deregulation episodes in the banking and financial sectors as quasi-natural...

Since the 1980s, the labour demand has shifted toward more educated workers in the US. The most common explanation is that the productivity of skilled workers has risen relative to the unskilled, but it is not easy to explain why the aggregate labour productivity was stagnant during the 1980s....

Tanulmányunk az ágazatok közötti kereseti különbségek mértékét, keletkezésük okait elemzi Magyarországon a kilencvenes évek végén. Az első részben áttekintjük az ágazatközi bérkülönbségekre vonatkozó legfontosabb elméleti megfontolásokat, bemutatjuk a vizsgálatukra...

Tanulmányunk az ágazatok közötti kereseti különbségek mértékét, keletkezésük okait elemzi Magyarországon, a kilencvenes évek végén. Az első részben - mely a Közgazdasági Szemle 2003. novemberi számában jelent meg - áttekintettük az ágazatközi bérkülönbségekre...