Testing Piketty's Hypothesis on the Drivers of Income Inequality : Evidence from Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics /

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century puts forth a logically consistent explanation for changes in income and wealth inequality patterns. However, while rich in data, the book provides no formal empirical testing for its theoretical causal chain. In this paper, I build a set of P...

Cur síos iomlán

Sonraí bibleagrafaíochta
Príomhchruthaitheoir: Goes, Carlos
Formáid: IRIS
Teanga:English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Sraith:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/160
Rochtain ar líne:Full text available on IMF
LEADER 01700cas a2200241 a 4500
001 AALejournalIMF017024
008 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d
020 |c 5.00 USD 
020 |z 9781475523249 
022 |a 1018-5941 
040 |a BD-DhAAL  |c BD-DhAAL 
100 1 |a Goes, Carlos. 
245 1 0 |a Testing Piketty's Hypothesis on the Drivers of Income Inequality :   |b Evidence from Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics /  |c Carlos Goes. 
264 1 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b International Monetary Fund,  |c 2016. 
300 |a 1 online resource (27 pages) 
490 1 |a IMF Working Papers 
500 |a <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
500 |a <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required 
506 |a Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 
520 3 |a Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century puts forth a logically consistent explanation for changes in income and wealth inequality patterns. However, while rich in data, the book provides no formal empirical testing for its theoretical causal chain. In this paper, I build a set of Panel SVAR models to check if inequality and capital share in the national income move up as the r-g gap grows. Using a sample of 19 advanced economies spanning over 30 years, I find no empirical evidence that dynamics move in the way Piketty suggests. Results are robust to several alternative estimates of r-g. 
538 |a Mode of access: Internet 
830 0 |a IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;  |v No. 2016/160 
856 4 0 |z Full text available on IMF  |u http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2016/160/001.2016.issue-160-en.xml  |z IMF e-Library