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...

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Autor principal: Goes, Carlos
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/160
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF