01700cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017024 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475523249 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Goes, Carlos. Testing Piketty's Hypothesis on the Drivers of Income Inequality : Evidence from Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics / Carlos Goes. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (27 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century puts forth a logically consistent explanation for changes in income and wealth inequality patterns. However, while rich in data, the book provides no formal empirical testing for its theoretical causal chain. In this paper, I build a set of Panel SVAR models to check if inequality and capital share in the national income move up as the r-g gap grows. Using a sample of 19 advanced economies spanning over 30 years, I find no empirical evidence that dynamics move in the way Piketty suggests. Results are robust to several alternative estimates of r-g. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/160 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2016/160/001.2016.issue-160-en.xml IMF e-Library