inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

We analyze the effects of R&D-driven automation on economic growth, education, and inequality when high-skilled workers …-driven growth leads to an increasing population share of college graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a declining …

We analyze the effects of automation and education on economic growth and inequality in an R&D-based growth model with … increasing population share of college graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, and a declining labor share. In … contrast to conventional wisdom, our theory predicts that faster economic growth promotes inequality. Because education and …

We analyze the effect of automation on economic growth and inequality in an R&D-based growth model with two types of … population share of graduates, increasing income and wealth inequality, a declining labor share, and (in an extension of the … basic model) increasing unemployment. In contrast to Piketty's famous claim that faster economic growth reduces inequality …

What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …

The inheritance tax is often seen as an effective tool to reduce wealth inequality, to raise public budgets if needed … tool for fighting wealth inequality without having distorting effects for the economy. For this purpose, the distributional …