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Money, capital and inequality in the age of Augustus
Elliott, Colin P - In: Capital in Classical Antiquity, (pp. 243-260). 2022
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Oligarchy ancient and modern
Grewal, David Singh - In: Capital in Classical Antiquity, (pp. 311-337). 2022
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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? : the urban economics model revisited
Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - 2016
Reproducing the socio-spatial structure of cities is one of the challenges facing the standard urban economics model of Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM model). In a widely cited paper, Jan K. Brueckner, Jacques-François Thisse and Yves Zenou (1999) asked "Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit...
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The inheritance and gift tax in Germany reform potentials for tax revenue, efficiency and distribution
Beznoska, Martin; Hentze, Tobias; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419216
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Income distribution and shock transmission : a simple heterogeneous agent New Keynesian perspective
Heinrichs, Katrin - 2019
Our very simple two agent New Keynesian model is highly stylised. It consists of an entrepreneur, who owns the economies' firms, consumes and saves, but does not work (or does not receive wage income), while the worker consumes and works, but cannot save. The allocation of the ability to save...
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2020 - Preliminary draft – 2019.05.30
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions. We leverage...
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Distributional effects of surging housing costs under Schwabe's law of rent
Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Löfflad, Hans Torben; … - 2019
for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to … investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the determinants of welfare. Households have non-homothetic preferences … inequality by about 0.7 percentage points (measured by top 10 percent share). Average welfare increases by about 0.5 percent …
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An ordinal approach to the measurement of inequality in asset ownership : methodology and an application to Mexican data
Berenger, Valérie; Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques; … - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 969-1012
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A general equilibrium model of earnings, income, and wealth
Glawion, René; Haller, Frédéric; Puche, Marc - 2020
that an increase in unemployment benefits leads to a rise in steady state wealth inequality measured by the Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426925
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Income and wealth distributions in a neoclassical growth model with σ ≥ 1
Patrão, Mauro - In: Inequality, taxation and intergenerational transmission, (pp. 35-62). 2019
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