Here is a list of references on blue sky laws and the literature on the role of regulation on economic outcomes.
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Bertrand, Marianne and Sendhil Mullinathan. 1999. \Is there discretion in wage setting? A test
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Bertrand, Marianne, Antoinette Schoar, and David Thesmar. 2007. \Banking Deregulation and
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Black, Sandra E. and Philip E. Strahan. 2002. \Entrepreneurship and Bank Credit Availability.”
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Campbell, Rutheford B. Jr. 1984. \An Open Attack on the Nonsense of Blue Sky Regulation.”
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Catan, Emiliano M. and Marcel Kahan. 2016. \The Law and Finance of Antitakeover Statutes.”
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Cetorelli, Nicola and Philip E. Strahan. 2006. \Finance as a Barrier to Entry: Bank Competition
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Denos, Kenneth I. 1997. \Blue and Gray Skies: The National Securities Markets Improvement
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