Arbeitspapier

Persistence of high income inequality and banking crises: 1980-2010

Differently from Atkinson and Morelli (2011) who detect no clear link between increases in income inequality and systemic banking crises, we show that a large majority of crises occurred between 1982 and 2008 have been preceded by persistently high levels of income inequality. Such association is robust when considering Gini values for incomes after-tax as well as before-tax and transfers. Moreover, we investigate the pattern of income inequality levels before and after a group of banking crises and the relative levels of income inequality in a large sample of OECD countries that did not experience banking crises between 1980 and 2010.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 885

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bellettini, Giorgio
Delbono, Flavio
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
(where)
Bologna
(when)
2013

DOI
doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/3692
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bellettini, Giorgio
  • Delbono, Flavio
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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