Nonlinearity in the financial development-income inequality nexus

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 310-325

  Kim, Dong Hyeon ^a   Lin, Shu Chin ^b  

^a Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Financial development; Income inequality; Instrumental variables; Threshold regressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052455219     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: 10957227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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