Tackling the UK's regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention

A Stansbury, D Turner, E Balls - Contemporary Social Science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We analyse binding constraints to productivity growth in the UK's regions outside London
and the greater South East. These analyses challenge a number of common arguments …

The fast, the slow, and the congested: Urban transportation in rich and poor countries

We assemble a new global database on motor vehicle travel speed in over 1,200 large cities
in 152 countries. We then estimate comparable city-level indices of travel speed and …

Size-Based Regulation and the Reallocation of Bank Fragility: Evidence from the Wells Fargo Asset Cap

T Ruan, S Vij - Available at SSRN 4728570, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We show that heightened regulation on large banks contributed to the rise in banking
fragility leading up to the regional bank crisis of 2023. Starting in 2018, US regulators have …

[PDF][PDF] Size-Based Regulation and Bank Fragility: Evidence from the Wells Fargo Asset Cap

T Ruan, S Vij - 2024 - truan.github.io
We argue that heightened regulation on large banks contributed to the rise in fragility in
regional banks revealed by the 2023 regional bank crisis. In 2018, US regulators restricted …

[PDF][PDF] Who Receives Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?

Y Wang - 2023 - files.elfsightcdn.com
Electrification of on-road transportation is a prominent strategy for emissions reduction. The
distribution of environmental benefits from electric vehicles (EVs) largely depends on the …