Equity Prices. The Missing Link between Income Inequality and Financial Crises?

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 8,5 (out of 10), Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: The question that has motivated this paper is whether financial crises and income inequality are systematically related. The long rise of inequality in many advanced countries prior to the Great Recession has inspired several authors (e.g. Fitoussi & Sara...