banking services and reducing discrimination. Exploiting the interstate bank deregulation from 1994 to 2021, I find that …This paper provides evidence that bank competition reduces gender and racial gaps in entrepreneurship by improving … stronger bank competition increases the quantity and quality of banking services provided to minority borrowers. I develop a …

We analyze whether and how bank deregulation relates to the M&A centric consolidation of U.S. banking industry. Using … significant effect of deregulation on bank consolidation in overall and functionally diverse M&A terms. However, geographically … diverse M&A activity remains largely unaffected by bank deregulation. Importantly, these results are predominantly observed in …

We examine the effects of geographic deregulation on banks' cost of equity (COE) using changes in interstate bank … branching laws over the post–Riegle-Neal period (1994:Q4–2016:Q4). We find strong evidence that deregulation increases banks …

This paper analyzes the monthly evolution of bank competition in Mexico from 2008 to 2019 using different measures …

provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …

rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …