Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation1 Export

@article{citeulike:2335001, abstract = {We propose a coherent unified approach to the study of the linkages among economic growth, financial structure, and inequality, bringing together disparate theoretical and empirical literature. That is, we show how to conduct model-based quantitative research on transitional paths. With analytical and numerical methods, we calibrate and make tractable a prototype canonical model and take it to an application, namely, Thailand 1976-1996, an emerging market economy in a phase of economic expansion with uneven financial deepening and increasing inequality. We look at the expected path generated by the model and conduct robustness experiments. Because the actual path of the Thai economy is imagined here to be just one realization of many possible histories of the model economy, we construct a covariance-normalized squared error metric of closeness and find the best-fit simulation. We also construct a confidence region from a set of simulations and formally test the model. We broadly replicate the actual data and identify anomalies.}, author = {Townsend, Robert M. and Kenichi, U. E. D. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2335001}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x}, journal = {Review of Economic Studies}, keywords = {finance, growth, microdata}, number = {1}, pages = {251--293}, posted-at = {2008-02-05 13:49:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation1}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x}, volume = {73}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2335001 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2335001 N2 - We propose a coherent unified approach to the study of the linkages among economic growth, financial structure, and inequality, bringing together disparate theoretical and empirical literature. That is, we show how to conduct model-based quantitative research on transitional paths. With analytical and numerical methods, we calibrate and make tractable a prototype canonical model and take it to an application, namely, Thailand 1976-1996, an emerging market economy in a phase of economic expansion with uneven financial deepening and increasing inequality. We look at the expected path generated by the model and conduct robustness experiments. Because the actual path of the Thai economy is imagined here to be just one realization of many possible histories of the model economy, we construct a covariance-normalized squared error metric of closeness and find the best-fit simulation. We also construct a confidence region from a set of simulations and formally test the model. We broadly replicate the actual data and identify anomalies. IS - 1 JF - Review of Economic Studies EP - 293 TI - Financial Deepening, Inequality, and Growth: A Model-Based Quantitative Evaluation1 VL - 73 SP - 251 KW - finance KW - growth KW - microdata AU - Townsend, Robert AU - Kenichi, UEDA PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-937X.2006.00376.x ER -