This paper examines the impacts of financial deregulation in a general
-equilibrium competitive framework permitting sector-specific unemploy
ment. Under the stable economy, financial deregulation results in fall
s in the wage rate and the goods price of the regulated sector, as wel
l as rises in the rental rate, the unemployment ratio, and the relativ
e output of that sector. Financial deregulation may, paradoxically, re
duce real national income under a certain set of conditions.