To explain the Pareto tail behavior empirically observed in wealth distributions, the quantitative macro literature has occasionally assumed that agents have random discount factors. This paper formally proves that the stationary wealth distribution in a simple Huggett model with random...

The cross-sectional distribution of consumption is commonly approximated by the lognormal distribution. This note shows that consumption is better described by the double Pareto-lognormal distribution (dPlN), which has a lognormal body with two Pareto tails and arises as the stationary...