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Written in celebration of its 350th anniversary in 2018, this book details the history of the central bank of Sweden … history. These chapters include an analysis of the Bank of England written by Charles Goodhart; the evolution of banking in …, Sveriges Riksbank, as presented by Klas Fregert. It relates the bank's history to the development of other major central banks …
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This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is...
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This paper examines long-term trends in aggregate wealth and inheritance and in their distributions, focusing on developed economies. A key stylized fact is that wealth is less equally distributed than income. Financial assets predominate among the wealthy, while owner-occupied housing is...
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This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
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