主题：Income Inequality, Capitalism and Ethno-Linguistic Fractionalization

时 间：2015年5月19日（星期二）下午3:00-4:30

地 点：威斯尼斯人沙河校区4号楼318会议室

主讲人：Jakob de Haan教授

主讲人简介：

Jakob de Haan教授现任格罗宁根大学经济与商学院教授，荷兰中央银行（简称DNB）首席研究学家、德国经济信息研究会（被誉为欧洲智库，简称CESifo）成员。Public Choice和 European Union Politics的编委会成员，欧洲货币与金融论坛（The European Money and Finance Forum，简称SUERF）研究成员，European Journal of Political Economy编辑。目前有著作数十本，正式发表论文一百多篇，DNB和CESifo工作论文数十篇。主要研究领域包括货币政策的政治经济学、货币政策、银行业、制度学和经济政策、经济产出。

Abstract：

This paper examines the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. The results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and income inequality. In addition, this paper analyzes the relationship between income redistribution (measured by the ratio of the income distribution resulting from market processes and the income distribution after redistribution) and ethno-linguistic fractionalization. The paper finds that the impact of ethno-linguistic fractionalization on income redistribution is conditional on the level of economic freedom: countries that have a high degree of fractionalization have less income redistribution, while capitalist countries that have a low degree of fractionalization have more income distribution. A shortened version of this paper published in the AER of May 2015.

[编辑]：孙颖