We assess the impact of bank deregulation on the distribution of income in the United States. From the 1970s through … performance. Exploiting the cross-state, cross-time variation in the timing of branch deregulation, we find that deregulation … little impact on incomes above the median. Bank deregulation tightened the distribution of income by increasing the relative …

US Interstate bank deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s led to larger, nationally diversified banks, and a decline …