Transitional growth with increasing inequality and financial deepening /

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Author / Creator:Townsend, Robert M., 1948-
Imprint:[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., ©2001.
Description:1 online resource (83 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/01/108
IMF working paper ; WP/01/108.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12497065
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Other authors / contributors:Ueda, Kenichi, 1968-
International Monetary Fund. Research Department.
ISBN:1282035363
9781282035362
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-48).
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Summary:We study models that display growth with financial deepening and increasing inequality along the way to perpetual steady state growth. A benchmark model is essentially a complete markets model but with transaction costs of financial intermediation. New proofs are required and thus provided for stochastic dynamic programming for the case of unbounded return functions and perpetual growth with a non-convex transaction technology. We calibrate the model and report quantitative predictions for Thailand during 1976-96. We find a discrepancy between the model and the data, suspect barriers to financial deepening as a cause, and evaluate the associated welfare loss.
Other form:Print version: Townsend, Robert M., 1948- Transitional growth with increasing inequality and financial deepening. [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., ©2001