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Kuznets Curve for the US: A Reconsideration Using Cosummability

Adnen Ben Nasr (), Mehmet Balcilar, Seyi Akadiri and Rangan Gupta

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2019, vol. 142, issue 2, No 17, 827-843

Abstract: Abstract The relationship between income inequality and long-run economic growth has gained a growing attention in economic research for over decades. This study employed advanced time series techniques to examine the existence of an inverted U-shaped long-run relationship between income inequality and economic growth, using long-span time series data for the United States between the periods 1917–2012. The concepts of summability, balancedness and co-summability was advanced to analyze nonlinear long-run relations among stochastic processes. The empirical results find no evidence in support of nonlinear long-run (inverted U-shaped) relationship for the US, but findings from a vocal set of economists lends strong support and is the basis for the conclusions drawn by this study.

Keywords: Income inequality; Economic growth; Summability; Balancedness; Co-summability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E62 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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