Appropriation Cost, Government Expenditure and Income Disparity

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10.2991/mmetss-16.2017.69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Appropriation Cost, Government Expenditure, Income Disparity

Abstract

This article investigates how appropriation cost and government expenditure would affect on income disparity from empirical aspects. Empirically, we use corruption perceptions indices and Gini coefficients of 129 countries or regions to estimate appropriation cost and income disparity respectively, and design regression analysis by different groups, which is determined by different levels of corruption perception indices. Regression results reveal that for countries with high appropriation cost, government expenditure has a significant negative coefficient on income disparity, whereas the coefficient becomes positive in countries with low appropriation cost. Moreover, this article provides with evidence that there is a U-shape relationship between income disparity and per capita income in the high appropriation cost sample, as well as the whole sample and remaining subsamples support the Kuznets Hypothesis.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qianqin Chen
AU  - Jiayu Wen
PY  - 2017/02
DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Appropriation Cost, Government Expenditure and Income Disparity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Modern Management, Education Technology, and Social Science (MMETSS 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/mmetss-16.2017.69
DO  - 10.2991/mmetss-16.2017.69
ID  - Chen2017/02
ER  -