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with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump … find that the tax–transfer scheme positively affects growth while simultaneously reducing wealth inequality in the economy …
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greater wealth inequality …
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easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard linearization techniques and is designed to work in cases when inequality … factor-specific productivity shocks shape dynamics of income and consumption inequality …
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wealth inequality. Using estimates of the earnings processes for each group to calibrate the model, we find wealth inequality … within and between the groups that is consistent with the data. Moreover, the predictions for overall wealth inequality are … heterogeneity generates a between-group pecuniary externality which in turn leads to the predicted differences in wealth inequality …
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Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the …
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The recently published Household Finance and Consumption Survey has revealed large differences in wealth inequality … between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership … by homeownership status shows that the negative relationship is mostly driven by large between-group inequality across …
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Current trends in the distribution of wealth trigger a social divide and threaten democracy. I propose to counter this evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital requires two novel institutions: a socially...
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wealth inequality, all else equal. Stock market booms primarily boost the wealth of households at the top of the distribution …
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Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of the income tax, assigning it a role as a...
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Using detailed tax data from the Swiss canton of Bern, I examine how changes in wealth are related to income risk. I find that only among elderly individuals high kurtosis of income risk may be positively correlated with wealth accumulation. Additionally, I document that a substantial share of...
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