Impact of financial development on income inequality: evidence from system dynamics approach

Syahrin Suhaimee, Mohd Azlan Shah Zaidi, Noorasiah Sulaiman and Jafri Zulkepli

Global Business and Economics Review, 2021, vol. 24, issue 3, 225-247

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of financial development on income inequality from the dimensions of the banking sector and the stock market from 1970 to 2019 by utilising the system dynamics approach to analyse the dynamic feedback system of multiple variables. Results show that the banking sector development has higher impact on reducing income inequality than that of the stock market development. Although financial deepening has the highest impact on reducing income inequality towards 2050, the GDP output is lower than that of the GDP output in banking sector development. Thus, the growth in the banking sector is favourable compared to the improvement in other financial indicators. To achieve more equitable distribution of income and sustainable economic growth, both the government and the private sectors need to play their roles in providing better financial services to the people.

Keywords: income inequality; banking sector; stock market; financial activity; financial deepening; financial size; system dynamics; financial development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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