inheritance. Wealth-income ratios, inherited wealth, and wealth inequalities were high in the 18th-19th centuries up untilWorldWar …-of-tax rate of return on wealth and g is the economy's growth rate. This suggests that current trends toward rising wealth-income …

Using annual data from several sources, we study the evolution of M1, M2, income, prices and long and short interest … rates in Ireland over the period 1933-2012. We find cointegration and that prices, income and interest rates are weakly … relatively high income elasticity, and detect parameter instability. We estimate a short-run M2 demand function that passes a …

investigation into the relationship between a good's factor intensity in production and its income elasticity of demand in … and income elasticity of demand for several types of preferences, with and without accounting for trade costs and … show an important role for per-capita income in understanding trade/GDP ratios, the choice of trading partners, and the …

How do aggregate wealth-to-income ratios evolve in the long run and why? We address this question using 1970 … able to extend our analysis as far back as 1700. We find in every country a gradual rise of wealth-income ratios in recent … growth, in line with the β=s/g Harrod-Domar-Solow formula. That is, for a given net saving rate s= 10%, the long run wealth-income …

Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and … democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on … framework provides evidence for significant but heterogeneous effects of income on democracy for former colonies and non …

second stage suggest that every one percent increase in trade (relative to GDP) raises income per capita by roughly 1/3 of a …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …