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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
robustly established that remittances and trust matter for financial development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229266
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The short-run and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development : some panel evidence for Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2021
This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514560
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Finance and income inequality : a review and new evidence
Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975-2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536253
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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014
tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361509
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
ominous messages for using equitable growth in fighting poverty. Rapid growing developing economies need to adopt appropriate … crucial to ensure more equity and social stability. -- growth ; inequality ; poverty ; East Asia and the Middle East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630652
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All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century
Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003
persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514125
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions …-income poverty à la capability approach of Amartya Sen) allows a rich discussion of policy interventions. While both orientations as … to the concepts of poverty, inequality and institutions are expounded on a priori reasoning, empirical analysis with LAC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514135
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434439
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Granularity in banking and growth : does financial openness matter?
Bremus, Franziska; Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786228