TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Avgouleas,Emilios
AU  - Donald,David C.
TI  - Political economy of financial regulation
SN  - 9781108470360
AV  - HB1 
U1  - 685.15 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  -  Financial institutions -- Management
KW  - Financial institutions -- Law and legislation
KW  - Financial institutions -- Government policy
N1  - Title from PDF file as viewed on 3/23/2007; Includes bibliographical references; Also available in print
N2  - "We investigate the causes and consequences of financial regulation by studying the political economy of U.S.  state usury laws in the 19th century.  We find evidence that usury laws were binding and enforced and that lending activity was affected by rate ceilings.  Exploiting the heterogeneity across states and time in regulation, enforcement, and market conditions, we find that regulation tightens when it is less costly and when it coexists with other economic and political restrictions that exclude certain groups.  Furthermore, the same determinants of financial regulation that favor one group (and restrict others) are associated with higher (lower) future economic growth rates.  The evidence suggests regulation is the outcome of private interests using the coercive power of the state to extract rents from other groups, highlighting the endogeneity of financial development and growth"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
UR  - http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12851
ER  -