We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

The present paper refers to the field of "corporate convergence theory". A recent work on corporate convergence of Krishna et al. (2002) points out that there is little evidence that common standards in corporate fovernance have been implemented.Besides, in the same study (page 2) it is...

There has traditionally been a symbiotic link between new business ventures and new banking ventures. This article finds that the traditional link between small businesses and small banks - the small business loan - has weakened in recent years. While new banks have intensified their reliance on...

Part I of this article provides a background on wetland mitigation requirements. It then examines the two prinicipal pressures on wetland regulatory programs: the failure of mitigation and the emergence of the private property rights movement. Part II analyzes the concept of wetland mitigation...