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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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We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...
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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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We study how rich shareholders can use their economic power to deregulate firms that they own, thus skewing the income distribution towards themselves. Agents differ in productivity and choose how much labor to supply. High productivity agents also own shares in the productive sector and thus...
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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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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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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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wealth inequality, all else equal. Stock market booms primarily boost the wealth of households at the top of the distribution …
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greater wealth inequality …
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