Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation

September 1, 2003

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Robert M. Townsend, and Kenichi Ueda. Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

We propose a coherent unified approach to the study of the linkages among economic growth, financial structure, and inequality, bringing together disparate theoretical and empirical literature. That is, we show how to conduct model-based quantitative research on transitional paths. With analytical and numerical methods, we calibrate and make tractable a prototype canonical model and take it to an application, namely, Thailand 1976-1996, an emerging economy in a phase of economic expansion with uneven financial deepening and increasing inequality. We broadly replicate the actual data, test the model formally, and identify anomalies.

Subject: Agroindustries, Banking, Economic sectors, Income distribution, Income inequality, National accounts, Personal income, Population and demographics

Keywords: Agroindustries, Asia and Pacific, Benchmark economy, Financial deepening, Financial system, Growth, Growth rate, Income distribution, Income inequality, Inequality, Parameter value, Personal income, Population shift, Portfolio choice, Saving rate, Thai baht, Transitional dynamics, Value function, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

64
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Working Paper No. 2003/193
Stock No:

WPIEA1932003
ISBN:

9781451859836
ISSN:

1018-5941

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