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The social fragility of financial development. A regional panel analysis of the financial development and inequality nexus on prior middle-income countries

Azzab, Meisara-Salem LU (2021) EKHS21 20211
Department of Economic History
Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of financial development as a bi-dimensional concept on inequality in a regional comparison of Asian as well as Latin American countries. The policy has previously been explicitly proposed for middle-income economies to boost growth and overall prosperity. While allowing for nonlinearities, this paper exploits both static, fixed effects as well as dynamic GMM estimation techniques utilising a self-assembled dataset on income shares as well as a set of macroeconomic controls motivated by earlier literature. The estimates retrieved in this analysis consistently imply inequality rises either immediately or in the long run depending on the geographic region. Although matching some earlier empirical work, the... (More)
This paper investigates the impact of financial development as a bi-dimensional concept on inequality in a regional comparison of Asian as well as Latin American countries. The policy has previously been explicitly proposed for middle-income economies to boost growth and overall prosperity. While allowing for nonlinearities, this paper exploits both static, fixed effects as well as dynamic GMM estimation techniques utilising a self-assembled dataset on income shares as well as a set of macroeconomic controls motivated by earlier literature. The estimates retrieved in this analysis consistently imply inequality rises either immediately or in the long run depending on the geographic region. Although matching some earlier empirical work, the findings partly necessitate a further theoretical substantiation of the financial development and growth nexus, possibly incorporating aspects of intensified elitist rent-seeking behaviour as financialisation advances. (Less)
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author
Azzab, Meisara-Salem LU
supervisor
organization
course
EKHS21 20211
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
financial liberalisation, financial deepening, income inequality, dynamic panel data model, U-shaped relationship
language
English
id
9060894
date added to LUP
2021-08-26 10:21:43
date last changed
2021-08-26 10:21:43
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  abstract     = {{This paper investigates the impact of financial development as a bi-dimensional concept on inequality in a regional comparison of Asian as well as Latin American countries. The policy has previously been explicitly proposed for middle-income economies to boost growth and overall prosperity. While allowing for nonlinearities, this paper exploits both static, fixed effects as well as dynamic GMM estimation techniques utilising a self-assembled dataset on income shares as well as a set of macroeconomic controls motivated by earlier literature. The estimates retrieved in this analysis consistently imply inequality rises either immediately or in the long run depending on the geographic region. Although matching some earlier empirical work, the findings partly necessitate a further theoretical substantiation of the financial development and growth nexus, possibly incorporating aspects of intensified elitist rent-seeking behaviour as financialisation advances.}},
  author       = {{Azzab, Meisara-Salem}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The social fragility of financial development. A regional panel analysis of the financial development and inequality nexus on prior middle-income countries}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}