-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the … policies such as subsidies to innovation investments explain a country's position in the eventual world income distribution …

We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …

estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is …

theory. A model of life-cycle decisions with uncertain survival is used to derive individuals' consumption and chosen …. Population theory (e.g. Coale, 1952) is used to derive the steady-state population age density function, enabling the aggregation …