Description:
This paper analyzes whether the dramatic reduction in bank branches after the 2008 crisis is affecting income inequality in the Spanish provinces in the post-crisis years (2015–2019). The results show that the density of bank branches has no effect on regional income inequality, and hold for a variety of scenarios and different types of bank. Then, although most previous literature suggests that bank branches reduce inequality, especially in advanced economies, that finding seems not generalizable to all contexts