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This dissertation develops an analytical and empirical framework to understand the effect of global financial flows on a heterogeneous-agent economy. The global integration of financial markets was an important milestone that characterizes the recent history of the world economy…

Background: Researchers have demonstrated an association between income inequality and poor health outcomes over recent decades. We sought to understand the effects on health of both inequality and political armed conflict in Sudan, a northeast African country with seven interna…

This dissertation examines whether and how financial policies affect the distributions of income and wealth. It also explores and compares the evolution of income inequality, along an inverted U-shaped Kuznetsian path, when only human capital formation takes place and when the s…