Financial development cycles and income inequality in a model with good and bad projects

Spiros Bougheas, Pasquale Commendatore, Laura Gardini and Ingrid Kubin

No 2022/05, Discussion Papers from University of Nottingham, Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM)

Abstract: We introduce a banking sector and heterogeneous agents in the Matsuyama et al. (2016) dynamic over-lapping generations neoclassical model with good and bad projects. The model captures the benefits and costs of an advanced banking system which can facilitate economic development when allocates resources to productive activities but can also hamper progress when invests in projects that do not contribute to capital formation. When the economy achieves higher stages of development it becomes prone to cycles. We show how the disparity of incomes across agents depends on changes in both the prices of the factors of production and the reallocation of agents across occupations.

Keywords: banks; financial innovation; economic development; business cycles; income inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Working Paper: Financial Development, Cycles and Income Inequality in a Model with Good and Bad Projects (2022)
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