We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth … evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …

The paper attempts to explain how a financial crisis like in 2008 in the US can affect income and wealth inequality. It … wealth distribution in a Ramsey model, by incorporating an interbank market and introducing an asymmetric information problem … wealth and income inequality …

The paper attempts to explain how a financial crisis like in 2008 in the US can affect income and wealth inequality. It … wealth distribution in a Ramsey model, by incorporating an interbank market and introducing an asymmetric information problem … wealth and income inequality …

about wealth inequality (Lundberg and Waldenström in Paper presented at the 4. SEEK conference, Mannheim 2014). In this … survey provides consistent yearly information about incomes since 1984 and for wealth in at least three survey years. Thus …-government income) and wealth components (e.g. property, business assets, financial assets, net worth) and their respective inequality …

The last four decades have been marked by growing inequality. The inequality of income and wealth is one of the most …

case for redistributive policies because the global increase of income inequality and wealth concentration was an important … and rising debt levels. Rising wealth concentration contributed to the crisis because the increasing asset demand from the …

innovations. First, the definition of household wealth employed here is net wealth minus the value of the household's home (if …