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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.creator | Bonfiglioli, Alessandra | - |
| dc.date | 2007-10-30T15:20:40Z | - |
| dc.date | 2007-10-30T15:20:40Z | - |
| dc.date | 2007-01-29 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-31T00:57:46Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-31T00:57:46Z | - |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1721 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1721 | - |
| dc.description | This paper studies the relationship between investor protection, financial risk sharing and income inequality. In the presence of market frictions, better protection makes investors more willing to take on entrepreneurial risk while lending to firms. This implies lower cost of external finance and better risk sharing between financiers and entrepreneurs. Investor protection, by boosting the market for risk sharing plays the twofold role of encouraging agents to undertake risky enterprises and providing them with insurance. By increasing the number of risky projects, it raises income inequality. By extending insurance to more agents, it reduces it. As a result, the relationship between the size of the market for risk sharing and income inequality is hump-shaped. Empirical evidence from a cross-section of sixty-eight countries, and a panel of fifty countries over the period 1976-2000, supports the predictions of the model. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation | UFAE and IAE Working Papers | - |
| dc.relation | 679.07 | - |
| dc.rights | openAccess | - |
| dc.subject | Income inequality | - |
| dc.subject | Stock market development | - |
| dc.subject | Financial development | - |
| dc.subject | Capital market frictions | - |
| dc.subject | Investor protection | - |
| dc.title | Investor Protection, Risk Sharing and Inequality | - |
| dc.type | Documento de trabajo | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Digital Csic | |
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