Financial reforms and income inequality

Economics Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 583-587

  Agnello, Luca ^a,b   Mallick, Sushanta K ^c   Sousa, Ricardo M ^d,e  

^a BANQUE DE FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Financial reforms; Income inequality; Kuznets curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864770863     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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