coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality … across nations has a negative relation with initial degree of inequality. This would imply that poorer nations starting with … higher degree of inequality experience weaker growth in inequality, exhibiting some sort of convergence in the inequality …

-driven theory of dynamic pricing in which the Phillips curve slope is endogenous to systematic aspects of monetary policy. In our …

-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in government spending increases income inequality and decreases wealth … inequality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that the financing of additional expenditures by debt rather than taxes …

How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we … income risk and taxes. We find that adding data on inequality does not materially change the estimated shocks and frictions … income inequality. The systematic components of monetary and fiscal policy are important for inequality as well. …

We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and … relationship between mobility and inequality is complex. For example, a reduction in the interest rate and an increase in the wage … rate reduce capital income inequality and allow upward mobility of the ability-rich. However, the increase in the labor …