Monday, October 3, 2016
Financial Globalization, Inequality and the Top 1%
Davide Furceri and I have revised our IMF Working Paper on the impacts of financial globalization—specifically, the elimination of restrictions on the capital account—on inequality. We find that episodes of capital account liberalization are followed by an increase in the share of income going to the top 1% (the chart below shows the impact). Our previous work had already shown that the Gini coefficient increases following capital account liberalization. The details, and several other new results, are given in the revised paper.
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Labels: Inclusive Growth
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