What Drives Deregulation? The Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions

44 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 1999

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Randall Kroszner

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Philip E. Strahan

Boston College - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: December 1998

Abstract

This paper investigates private interest, public interest, and political-institutional theories of regulatory change to analyze state-level deregulation of bank branching restrictions. Using a hazard model, we find that interest group factors related to the relative strength of potential winners (large banks and small, bank-dependent firms) and losers (small banks and the rival insurance firms) can explain the timing of branching deregulation across states during the last quarter century. The same factors also explain congressional voting on interstate branching deregulation. While we find some support for each theory, the private interest approach provides the most compelling overall explanation of our results.

JEL Classification: D78, G21, G28, L51

Suggested Citation

Kroszner, Randall and Strahan, Philip E., What Drives Deregulation? The Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions (December 1998). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=170355 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.170355

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