Income inequality and macroeconomic volatility: An empirical investigation

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 380-398

  Breen, Richard ^b   García Peñalosa, Cecilia ^a  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCOME; MACROECONOMICS;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 28244489847     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00283.x     Document Type: Review

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