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Dodd-Frank bank regs fall heavier on small banks than big ones, study suggests

By Timothy P. Carney

Published February 9, 2015 8:26pm ET

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“There are economies of scale when dealing with regulation.”

That’s the understatement of the Obama era. Robert Greene at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government said it as his boss, former Wall Street banker Marshall Lux, rolled out his research suggesting that the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation law has fallen disproportionately on smaller banks.

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