This paper investigates the relationship between competition law and income inequality using ‎panel data techniques for a large sample of countries over the period 1960–2010. Applying ‎our analysis to a World sample and OECD countries, we find consistent evidence of a ‎negative, and in...

To what extent does the choice of competition law text associate with economic ‎inequality? While competition laws have been suggested as a possible factor ‎contributing to current inequality trends in developed countries and as a viable ‎instrument to address them, little empirical...

This paper investigates if, and to what extent, banking structural reforms and the process of privatization may affect the top income shares over time. We focus on the case of Canada and Italy, which both undertook a major change within their banking sector in the early 1990s. Their banking...

We empirically investigate the relationship between agricultural development and proximity to military forts in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado in 1880. Agricultural investments are substantially higher in counties where a military fort is present, suggesting that military forts stimulated...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between accidental shipping losses on the Great Lakes between 1900 and 1939 and the role the Lake Carriers Association played in preventing or limiting such losses. Moreover, we address the relative benefits of private effort, through the Lake...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between accidental shipping losses on the Great Lakes between 1900 and 1939 and the role the Lake Carriers Association played in preventing or limiting such losses. Moreover, we address the relative benefits of private effort, through the Lake...

We empirically investigate the relationship between agricultural development and proximity to military forts in Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado in 1880. Agricultural investments are substantially higher in counties where a military fort is present, suggesting that military forts stimulated...