dc.contributor.author |
Bittencourt, Manoel
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dc.date.accessioned |
2009-11-04T07:02:34Z |
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dc.date.available |
2009-11-04T07:02:34Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2009 |
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dc.description.abstract |
We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. The evidence—based initially on time-series, and then on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis—shows that financial development had a significant and robust effect in reducing inequality during the period. We suggest that this is not only because the poorer can invest the acquired credit in either short or long-term productive activities, but also because those with access to financial markets can insulate themselves, via a process of financial adaptation, against recurrent poor macroeconomic performance, which is exemplified in Brazil by high rates of inflation. The main implication of the results is that a deeper and more active financial sector alleviates the high inequality seen in Brazil without the need for distortionary taxation. |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Bittencourt, M 2009, 'Financial development and inequality: Brazil 1985–1994', Economic Change and Restructuring, doi:10.1007/s10644-009-9080-x. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/113294/] |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1573-9414 |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1007/s10644-009-9080-x |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/11693 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.publisher |
Springer |
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dc.rights |
Springer. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
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dc.subject |
Financial development |
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dc.subject |
Inequality |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Equality -- Brazil |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985- |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Earnings management -- Brazil |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Time-series analysis |
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dc.subject.lcsh |
Macroeconomics |
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dc.title |
Financial development and inequality : Brazil 1985–1994 |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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