Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona; Levkov, Alexey - In: Critical Finance Review 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-48
We use the cross-state, cross-time variation in bank deregulation across the U.S. states to assess how improvements in banking systems affected the labor market opportunities of black workers. Bank deregulation from the 1970s through the 1990s improved bank efficiency, lowered entry barriers...