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Financialization and income inequality: An empirical analysis

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  • Kang-Kook Lee
  • Md Abu Bakkar Siddique

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This study investigates the effect of financialization and financial rent on income inequality across countries, including advanced and emerging markets and developing countries, in the 1998–2017 period. Employing a new measurement and dynamic panel estimation, we find that financialization measured by financial rent increases income inequality. We also find that the more monopolized banking sector is associated with higher income inequality. It suggests that market concentration in the banking sector creates ample opportunities for banks to generate excess profit and income, which leads to higher top income concentration and overall inequality. Commonly used variables for financialization such as bank income, the stock trading value, stock market capitalization, and the banking sector asset compared to the economy are also harmful to inequality.

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  • Kang-Kook Lee & Md Abu Bakkar Siddique, 2021. "Financialization and income inequality: An empirical analysis," Japanese Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(2-3), pages 121-145, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jpneco:v:47:y:2021:i:2-3:p:121-145
    DOI: 10.1080/2329194X.2021.1945465
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    1. Olivér Kovács, 2022. "Zombification and Industry 4.0—Directional Financialisation against Doomed Industrial Revolution," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-24, May.
    2. Juzhong Zhuang, 2023. "Income and Wealth Inequality in Asia and the Pacific: Trends, Causes, and Policy Remedies," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 18(1), pages 15-41, January.
    3. Xinhua Gu & Chun Kwok Lei & Qingbin Zhao & Nian Liu, 2024. "Different experiences of Asian emerging‐market economies in the two major financial crises," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(3), pages 3286-3308, July.
    4. Ricardo Barradas & Rishi Lakhani, 2024. "The finance–inequality nexus in the era of financialisation: Evidence for Portugal," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(3), pages 3510-3544, July.

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