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- Title
FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGICAL SHIFT, AND INEQUALITY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
- Authors
Horii, Ryo; Ohdoi, Ryoji; Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
- Abstract
This paper presents an overlapping generations model with technology choice and imperfect financial markets, and examines the evolution of the income distribution in economic development. The model shows that improvements in financial infrastructure facilitate economic development both by raising the aggregate capital–labor ratio and by causing a technological shift to more capital-intensive technologies. Although a higher capital–labor ratio under a given technology reduces inequality, a technological shift can lead to a concentration of economic rents among a smaller number of agents. We derive the condition under which an improvement in financial infrastructure actually decreases the average utility of agents.
- Subjects
INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); ECONOMIC development; MATHEMATICAL inequalities; FINANCIAL markets; CREDIT control; INCOME inequality
- Publication
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 3, p531
- ISSN
1365-1005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1365100511000356