TY  - SER
AU  - Chahine, Salim
AU  -  Chahine, Adam
TI  - COVID-19 Crisis and the Association Between Inequality and Economic Growth
SN  - 0260-1079
PB  - Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics
KW  -  Economic Growth
KW  -  Exogenous Shock
KW  - Inequality
N2  - In this paper, we investigate the macroeconomic response to exogenous shocks, namely the COVID-19. We conjecture that the sensitivity of an economic system to an exogenous shock is endogenous on its characteristics and ability to counter a shock. We use the COVID-19 crisis as an exogenous shock, and we argue that a higher income inequality is likely to lead to a greater negative impact of an exogenous shock on economic growth. We validate our expectations using different inequality indexes. In further robustness tests, we confirm our conclusions using different proxies for economic conditions.JEL Codes: A10, I14, I15
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/02601079221142703
ER  -