Huysentruyt, Marieke; Lefevere, Eva; Menon, Carlo - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2010
We examine the effects of bank deregulation on the spatial dynamics of retail-bank branching, exploiting, much like a quasi-natural experiment, the context of intense liberalization reforms in Belgium in the late nineties. Using .ne-grained data on branch network dynamics within the metropolitan...