In this paper we present a new data set on bank credit in four categories: home mortgages, consumer credit, bank loans to non-bank financials, and loans to non-financial business, for 74 economies over 1990–2013. We offer a full description of sources and methods of data collection and...

Does financial development increase income inequality? Ambiguous answers to this question may be due to over-aggregation of ‘financial development'. In a sample of 40 developed economies over 1990-2013, we study the effects on income inequality of different components of financial development....