Financial deepening, inequality, and growth: A model-based quantitative evaluation

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 251-293

  Townsend, Robert M ^a   Ueda, Kenichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCE; MARKET TRANSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 33646673071     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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