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Finance and inequality in eight Asian countries: does size matter

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2018
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The present paper seeks to assess the implications of increasing financial sector size on income inequality in eight Asian countries - Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea. Adopting a panel data approach, it document a non-linear relation between income inequality and financial sector size in these countries. More precisely, the increasing financial sector size is favourable to equal income distribution only up until a size threshold, beyond which further expansion of the financial sector can worsen income distribution. The analysis further highlights the income-equalizing effect of economic growth and infrastructure development and the income un-equalizing effect of trade and government expenditures. These results are robust to alternative model specifications and to exclusion of a country at a time from the sample.
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Income inequality , Financial sector size , Asian countries
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Ibrahim, M. H.. (2018). Finance and inequality in eight Asian countries: does size matter. Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, 21 (1), pp. 33-56.
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Bank Indonesia

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