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productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …
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effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was … deregulation raises above the level present in more competitive markets, suggesting that the pre-existing conditions severely …
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Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for identifying exogenous changes in the competitive...
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process of interstate bank deregulation that lowered barriers to competition across U.S. states over the 1980s and 1990s with …
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manufacturing production. Labor market reform is modeled as a reduction in firing costs and/or unemployment benefits. We find that … business cycle conditions at the time of deregulation significantly affect adjustment. A reduction of firing costs entails …
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We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...
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Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’ preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …
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The wave of crises that began in 2008 reheated the debate on market deregulation as a tool to improve economic … policy to reduce transition costs. Third, deregulation reduces static and dynamic inefficiencies, making price stability more … desirable. International synchronization of reforms can eliminate policy tradeoffs generated by asymmetric deregulation …
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