Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/320016 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CASMEF Working Paper Series No. WP 2023/01
Publisher: 
LUISS Guido Carli, Department of Economics and Finance, Arcelli Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies, Rome
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether local cooperative banks mitigated income inequality in Italian municipalities after the two main crises that characterized the European landscape between 2008 and 2015, i.e. the financial and sovereign-debt crises. Estimation results reveal that, although in the post-crisis periods income inequality increased, this increase was lower in municipalities with at least one cooperative bank branch. The same result, that is a mitigation of income inequality, is not found for non-cooperative banks. Also the size of the cooperative banking system mattered after the crises: where cooperative banks extended more loans and collected more deposits income inequality was lower. The distributional impact of cooperative banks after the two crises was particularly relevant in small municipalities, and where the level of industrial and financial development was higher.
Subjects: 
Cooperative banking
income inequality
financial development
financial crisis
municipalities
JEL: 
G21
G38
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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