wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …

compare the outcome to the Handelsblatt ranking of economists in the Germanspeaking area. Our analysis focuses on whether the …

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining … net wealth that is currently on the German political agenda. We use survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …) and estimate the net wealth distribution at the very top, based on publicly available information about very rich Germans …

The distributions of income and wealth in countries across the world are found to possess some robust and stable …

This paper focuses on three issues. First, it analyses the increasing inequality of wealth in Sweden in terms of … percentile age and birth cohort differences. Second, it discusses mobility of wealth as a function of age, length of the … wealth. …

Statistical equilibrium denotes the distribution of wealth that can be achieved in the largest number of ways while … satisfying a first moment constraint on the rate of growth in wealth portfolios. Maximizing entropy subject to a logarithmic … constraint yields a power law distribution whose characteristic exponent depends positively on the minimum wealth level, and …