This paper investigates the impact of job protection deregulation on firms' productivity, leveraging a size …

allocation of capital, were likely the main cause of the Swedish lagging behind. After financial deregulation, a third phase …

This paper studies the impact of US interstate bank branching deregulation on school finance and student achievement …, leveraging the deregulation as a state tax revenue shock. Total revenue and expenditure increase following the deregulation. The … revenue increase stems mainly from higher state aid, with spending gains concentrated in capital outlays. Deregulation …

We analyze the impact of occupational deregulation on the wages of licensed workers. To do so, we exploit a … deregulation policy in the German craft sector that removed the master certificate as a requirement for starting a business in … about half of the craft occupations. Specifically, we examine the impact of this deregulation policy on the wage premium of …

regressions in a sample of 83 countries spanning 1970-2014. We find that oil price windfall gains lead to a deregulation of the … labor market in autocracies but have no effects in democracies. Windfall losses instead cause a sizeable deregulation in … efficiency considerations are instead both plausible deregulation drivers following windfall gains in autocracies, as …