Different episodes of economic growth display widely varying distributional characteristics, both across countries and over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to rely on the Growth Incidence Curve, which gives the...

This online appendix is structured as follows. Section S.1 contains some auxiliary lemmas and proofs for Section 4. Section S.2 develop supporting theoretical results for Section 5. Section S.3 reports additional simulation results. Some tables appear at the end

This paper develops cluster robust inference methods for panel quantile regression (QR) models with individual fixed effects, allowing temporal correlation within each individual. The conventional QR standard errors can seriously underestimate the uncertainty of estimators and therefore...

This paper develops a model for optimal portfolio allocation for an investor with quantile preferences, i.e., who maximizes the τ-quantile of the portfolio return, for τ ∈ (0,1). Quantile preferences allow to study heterogeneity in individuals' portfolio choice by varying the quantiles, and...

This paper develops generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation and inference procedures for quantile regression models. We propose a GMM estimator for simultaneous estimation across multiple quantiles. This estimator allows us to model quantile regression coefficients using flexible...

Different episodes of economic growth display widely varying distributional characteristics, both across countries and over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to rely on the Growth Incidence Curve, which gives the...

The recent fiscal crisis has renewed the public policy focus on debt sustainability. To investigate debt sustainability empirically, a significant portion of the literature on public debt sustainability tests whether government revenue and expenditure are cointegrated, i.e., move together in the...