Search Results - subject:"Wealth Distribution"

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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Born in the land of milk and honey : hometown growth and individual wealth accumulation

Bartels, Charlotte; König, Johannes; Schröder, Carsten - 2025

How does economic growth affect individual wealth accumulation and, thereby, wealth inequality? Combining individual wealth from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. We find that past...

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Market power, growth, and wealth inequality

Impullitti, Giammario; Rendahl, Pontus - 2025

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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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Market power, growth, and wealth inequality

Impullitti, Giammario; Rendhal, Pontus - 2025

return gap, which amplifies inequality by affecting the saving patterns of households in different ways across the wealth … distribution, deepening the divide between the rich and the poor. These trends result in substantial welfare losses for the …

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