Search Results - subject:"Wealth Distribution"

On the role of luck for the concentration of capital and Piketty's 'fundamental force of divergence'

Vilks, Arnis - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 17 (2025) 1, pp. 37-67

We consider an overlapping generations version of a model suggested by Fargione, Lehmann and Polasky that allows us to show, by means of simulations, that randomness of the rate of return on capital, combined with inheritance of capital and consumption being a concave function of wealth may lead...

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Back to the future : how economic history can gain more relevance by abandoning modernization thinking

Bavel, Bas J. P. van - In: The economic history review 78 (2025) 2, pp. 401-423

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Market power, growth, and wealth inequality

Impullitti, Giammario; Rendahl, Pontus - 2025

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Market power, growth and wealth inequality

Impullitti, Giammario; Rendahl, Pontus - 2025

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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison

Horioka, Charles - 2024

In this paper, I analyze detailed data on intergenerational transfers in 4 countries (China, India, Japan, and the United States) from the "Japan Household Panel Survey on Consumer Preferences and Satisfaction (JHPS-CPS)" which has been conducted by the Institute of Social and Economic Research...

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On the possibility of an ever-increasing wealth concentration : Pasinetti, dual, and anti-dual equilibria in a Post-Keynesian framework

Ederer, Stefan; Rehm, Miriam - 2024

profit share leads to a more unequal wealth distribution, and a negative feedback effect between high wealth inequality, a …

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Wealth, marriage, and sex selection

Borker, Girija; Eeckhout, Jan; Luke, Nancy; Minz, Shantidani - 2024

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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

-scale online survey in Germany. First, we analyze how well participants are informed about the German wealth distribution and their … treatment group receives information about the shape of the German wealth distribution, while another treatment group receives … for redistribution after learning about the shape of the wealth distribution. In contrast, older participants decrease …

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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence

Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024

Industrial policies, such as infrastructure investments and export tariffs, affect the allocation of labor and incomes across sectors, attracting substantial lobbying efforts by special interest groups. Yet, the link between structural change and lobbying remains underexplored. Using more than...

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Lobbying for industrialization : theory and evidence

Veselov, Dmitriy; Yarkin, Alexander - 2024

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