This is the first study evaluating publication performances of economists and economics departments in Turkey. Findings … show wide gaps between the Top-Five economics departments and economists affiliated to these universities and the others …. Publication patterns of Turkish economists are the same with their counterparts living in the rest of the world. …

This paper investigates the quantitative importance of different savings motives on the distributions of wealth and …

environmental externality, human capital, and credit constraints. Environmental quality affects labor productivity and thus wealth … dynamics, whereas wealth distribution determines the degree to which agents rely upon natural resources and therefore the … lowers income, which in turn accelerates environmental degradation. We show that greater wealth heterogeneity is the key to …

From 1989 to 2001, wealth in real terms increased overall among U.S. families. But characterizing distributional … on the 400 wealthiest Americans and from the SCF, which explicitly excludes families in the Forbes list, that wealth grew … relatively strongly at the very top of the distribution. At the same time, the share of total household wealth held by the Forbes …

The large wealth and consumption inequality in the U.S. is usually attributed to two market frictions: debt constraints … large wealth dispersion and wealth concentration in the top tail of the distribution in the U.S. …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …