How do banking crises impact on income inequality?

We show that banking crises have an important effect on income distribution: inequality increases before banking crisis episodes and sharply declines afterwards. We also find that, while a large government size does not per se seem to reduce inequality, a rise in financial depth (i.e. better access...

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Volume:	19
Main Author:	Agnello, Luca Sousa, Ricardo M
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	ABINGDON Taylor & Francis 01.10.2012 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Taylor and Francis Journals
published in:	Applied economics letters Vol. 19; no. 15; pp. 1425 - 1429
ORCID:	0000-0002-8279-5753
Data of publication:	10/1/2012
ISSN:	1350-4851 1466-4291
EISSN:	1466-4291
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	Applied Economics Letters
Subjects:	financial depth inequality banking crisis government size Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences financial depth inequality banking crisis government size
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2012 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS