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The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Financial Stability and Economic Growth
Martin Neil Baily, Aaron Klein, Justin Schardin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2017, 3 (1) 20-47; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.1.02
Martin Neil Baily
aBernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development and senior fellow and director of the Business and Public Policy Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Aaron Klein
bFellow and policy director at the Business and Public Policy Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Justin Schardin
cDirector of the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative at the Bipartisan Policy Center

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