U.S. Banking Deregulation, Small Businesses, and Interstate Insurance of Personal Income

54 Pages Posted: 23 Jun 2004

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Yuliya Demyanyk

University of Illinois at Chicago

Charlotte Ostergaard

Copenhagen Business School; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Finance

Bent E. Sørensen

University of Houston - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

We estimate the effects of deregulation of U.S. banking restrictions on the amount of interstate personal income insurance during the period 1970-2001. Interstate income insurance occurs when personal income reacts less than one-to-one to state-specific shocks to output. We find that income insurance improved after banking deregulation, and that this effect is larger in states where small businesses are more important. We further show that the impact of deregulation is stronger for proprietors' income than other components of personal income. Our explanation of this result enters on the role of banks as a prime source of small business finance and on the close intertwining of the personal and business finances of small business owners. Our analysis casts light on the real effects of bank deregulation, on the risk sharing function of banks, and on the integration of bank markets.

Keywords: Financial deregulation, integration of bank markets, interstate risk sharing,small business finance

JEL Classification: G21,G28

Suggested Citation

Demyanyk, Yuliya and Ostergaard, Charlotte and Sorensen, Bent E., U.S. Banking Deregulation, Small Businesses, and Interstate Insurance of Personal Income (September 2006). EFA 2004 Maastricht Meetings Paper No. 4444, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=557094 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.557094

Yuliya Demyanyk

University of Illinois at Chicago ( email )

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Charlotte Ostergaard (Contact Author)

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Bent E. Sorensen

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