conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous … of conflict and stagnation. We illustrate the model by analyzing the rise of civilization in Sumeria and Egypt, the first …

conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous … of conflict and stagnation. We illustrate the model by analyzing the rise of civilization in Sumeria and Egypt, the first …

Swedish marriages, we test the hypothesis that nobility have a greater probability of marrying "up" in terms of wealth. We …

We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical …

, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous …This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …

talented or more able but that, even in relatively egalitarian Sweden, wealth begets wealth. …Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a …

the structure of national wealth differs. In Sweden, government wealth grew much faster and became more important, not …This paper uses new data on Swedish national wealth over a period of two hundred years to study whether the patterns in … wealth-income ratios previously found by Piketty and Zucman (2014) for some very rich and large Western economies extend to …

, public and national wealth and sectoral saving rates in Sweden over the past two centuries. The paper reviews previous …This study presents a new database, the Swedish National Wealth Database (SNWD), which contains annual data on private … investigations of national wealth, compares their estimates with the new ones and discusses method approaches and measurement …