Evaluating the real effect of bank branching deregulation: comparing contiguous counties across U.S. state borders

Rocco Huang

No 788, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: This paper proposes a new methodology to evaluate the economic effect of state-specific policy changes, using bank-branching deregulations in the U.S. as an example. The new method compares economic performance of contiguous counties on opposite sides of state borders, where on one side restrictions on statewide branching were removed relatively earlier, to create a natural JEL Classification: G21, G28, O43

Keywords: banking deregulation; economic growth; regression discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-07
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