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Vermögensverteilung 2,395 Wealth distribution 2,382 Einkommensverteilung 854 Income distribution 847 Theorie 553 Theory 547 USA 504 United States 502 Deutschland 304 Germany 292 Wealth 252 Vermögen 251 Soziale Ungleichheit 239 Social inequality 222 Welt 201 World 200 Armut 171 Poverty 167 wealth inequality 143 Erbe 118 Inheritance 118 Wirtschaftswachstum 118 Economic growth 115 Privater Haushalt 104 Household 102 Großbritannien 99 United Kingdom 99 Redistribution 96 Savings 94 Umverteilung 94 Sparen 93 Wealth inequality 85 Verteilungsgerechtigkeit 71 Schätzung 70 Estimation 68 Schweden 68 Sweden 68 Overlapping Generations 65 Overlapping generations 65 Comparison 57
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Article in journal 888 Aufsatz in Zeitschriften 888 Graue Literatur 747 Non-commercial literature 747 Working Paper 633 Arbeitspapier 593 Article in book 373 Aufsatz im Buch 373 Collection of articles of several authors 119 Sammelwerk 119 Dissertation 64 Thesis 64 Hochschulschrift 43 Amtsdruckschrift 41 Government document 41 Congress report 37 Kongressschrift 37 Bibliographie enthalten 33 Bibliography included 33 Aufsatzsammlung 28 Statistics 27 Statistik 27 Article 18 Collection of articles written by one author 18 Sammlung 18 Advisory report 14 Gutachten 14 Kongress 14 Mehrbändiges Werk 10 Multi-volume publication 10 Lehrbuch 9 Survey 8 Übersichtsarbeit 8 Country Report 6 Länderbericht 6 Personenfestschrift 6 Publication in honor of a person 6 Commentary 5 Kommentar 5 Reprint 5
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Grabka, Markus M. 66 Wolff, Edward N. 65 Frick, Joachim R. 42 Piketty, Thomas 36 De Nardi, Mariacristina 25 Saez, Emmanuel 25 Sierminska, Eva 24 Waldenström, Daniel 24 Davies, James B. 20 Krueger, Dirk 20 Roine, Jesper 17 Kopczuk, Wojciech 16 Hauser, Richard 15 Klevmarken, Anders 15 Westermeier, Christian 15 Cagetti, Marco 14 Banks, James 13 Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. 13 Kennickell, Arthur B. 13 Hildebrand, Vincent A. 12 Corneo, Giacomo G. 11 Li, Shi 11 Williamson, Jeffrey G. 11 Zucman, Gabriel 11 Arrondel, Luc 10 Atkinson, A. B. 10 Brandolini, Andrea 10 Hubar, Sylwia 10 Karagiannaki, Eleni 10 Koulovatianos, Christos 10 Naghavi, Alireza 10 Prarolo, Giovanni 10 Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor 10 Smeeding, Timothy M. 10 Smith, James P. 10 Zacharias, Ajit 10 Cowell, Frank A. 9 Hills, John R. 9 Lusardi, Annamaria 9 Masson, André 9
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C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers 11 Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE 8 Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung 7 Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien / Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik 6 CESifo 5 Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung "Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP)", DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) 4 Fundación Argentaria 4 Institute for Fiscal Studies 4 Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) 4 Jerome Levy Economics Institute 4 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 4 World Institute for Development Economics Research 4 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung 4 Banca d'Italia 3 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung 3 European Central Bank 3 London School of Economics (LSE) 3 Prognos AG 3 Simposio sobre Igualdad y Distribución de la Renta y la Riqueza <2, 1995, Madrid> 3 Society for Economic Dynamics - SED 3 World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University 3 Armutskonferenz 2 Australien / Bureau of Statistics 2 Avenir Suisse 2 Beirat für Gesellschafts-, Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitische Alternativen 2 Campus-Verlag <Frankfurt, Main> 2 Center for Financial Studies 2 Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School 2 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 2 Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia 2 EconWPA 2 Economics Department, Queen's University 2 Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis / Research Department 2 Group Ingénue 2 HAL 2 Income Distribution Group 2 Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2 Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) 2 International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2 Japan / Keizai Kikakuchō 2
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Working paper 90 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 53 The review of income and wealth : journal of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth 33 Discussion paper series 27 The Oxford handbook of economic inequality 24 Working papers 23 Review of economic dynamics 21 Discussion paper 20 The American economic review 18 CESifo working papers 17 DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 17 Changing patterns in the distribution of economic welfare : an international perspective 16 Macroeconomic dynamics 16 Advances on income inequality and concentration measures 14 Journal of monetary economics 14 Quantitative approaches to multidimensional poverty measurement 14 DIW Wochenbericht 12 Economics letters 12 International perspectives on household wealth 12 Journal of economic dynamics & control 12 Materialien zu Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft : Working Paper-Reihe der AK Wien 12 Research on economic inequality : a research annual 12 CEPR Discussion Papers 11 Counting the poor : new thinking about European poverty measures and lessons for the United States 11 Economie et statistique 11 Journal of economic theory 11 Journal of public economics 11 Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft : wirtschaftspolitische Zeitschrift der Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien 10 Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for Fiscal Studies 9 Journal of income distribution : an international quarterly 9 Journal of political economy 9 Personal wealth from a global perspective : a study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) 9 Research papers / United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research 9 Studies in the distribution of household wealth 9 Der volkswirtschaftliche Sparprozess 8 Inequality and opportunity : papers from the second ECINEQ Society meeting ; [Berlin, July 2007] 8 National tax journal 8 The journal of economic history 8 The review of economics and statistics 8 Top incomes over the twentieth century : a contrast between continental European and English-speaking countries 8
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ECONIS (ZBW) 2,403 RePEc 143 EconStor 58
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Financial development, rule of law and wealth inequality : Bayesian model averaging evidence
Horváth, Roman; Horvatovay, Eva; Siranova, Maria - 2017
We examine the determinants of financial development using our global sample and employing a rich set of measures of financial development that assess the degree of depth, access, stability and efficiency of financial intermediaries. We use Bayesian model averaging to test competing theories...
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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14
Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2016
Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the benchmark year. These estimates have been revised and updated since 2010, and the purpose of this paper is to explain the ways in which the estimation methodology has evolved and...
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Uninsured risk, stagnation, and fiscal policy
Braun, R. Anton; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2016
Japan is in the midst of a protracted spell of depressed economic activity. Japan's economic stagnation has occurred against a background of rising earnings risk. Occupational stability is falling as routine occupations disappear and implicit lifetime employment guarantees are gradually...
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth inequality in Japan and the United States
Niimi, Yoko; Horioka, Charles - 2016
To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper examines whether or not individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are more likely to leave bequests to their children than those who do not using data for Japan...
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Ethnic and racial disparities in saving behavior
Dal Borgo, Mariela - 2018
Using data of households approaching retirement in the U.S., I find that the Whites' median saving rates are 9 percentage points larger than the Mexican Americans' rates (ethnic gap) and than the African Americans' rates (racial gap). Two-thirds of each gap correspond to changes in asset prices...
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Ethnic and racial disparities in saving behavior
Dal Borgo, Mariela - 2018
Using data of households approaching retirement in the U.S., I find that the Whites' median saving rates are 9 percentage points larger than the Mexican Americans' rates (ethnic gap) and than the African Americans' rates (racial gap). Two-thirds of each gap correspond to changes in asset prices...
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Growing apart : the evolution of income vs. wealth inequality
Cragga, Michael; Ghayada, Rand - In: The Economists' voice 12 (2015) 1, pp. 1-12
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Wealth inequality and homeownership in Europe
Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar - 2015
The recently published Household Finance and Consumption Survey has revealed large differences in wealth inequality between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership rates across countries. We use two decomposition methods...
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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany
Grabka, Markus M. - 2015
The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand-Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far...
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Financial development, rule of law and wealth inequality: Bayesian model averaging evidence
Horváth, Roman; Horvatovay, Eva; Siranova, Maria - 2017
We examine the determinants of financial development using our global sample and employing a rich set of measures of financial development that assess the degree of depth, access, stability and efficiency of financial intermediaries. We use Bayesian model averaging to test competing theories...
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Can taxation predict US top-wealth share dynamics?
Böhl, Gregor; Fischer, Thomas - 2017
The level of capital tax gains has high explanatory power regarding the question of what drives economic inequality. On this basis, the authors develop a simple, yet micro-founded portfolio selection model to explain the dynamics of wealth inequality given empirical tax series in the US. The...
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Global inequality dynamics : new findings from WID.world
Alvaredo, Facundo; Chancel, Lucas; Piketty, Thomas; … - 2017
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Housing and household wealth inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China
Li, Sheng; Li, Jie; Ouyang, Alice Y. - 2017
We examine the issue of the widening wealth inequality in the People's Republic of China (PRC) from the perspective of housing. Using China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) data from 2011, we find that the PRC's wealth inequality including housing is much larger than income inequality. Housing...
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth inequality in Japan and the United States
Niimi, Yoko; Horioka, Charles - 2017
To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper uses data for Japan and the United States to examine whether individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are more likely to leave bequests to their children than...
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Capital accumulation, private property and rising inequality in China, 1978-2015
Piketty, Thomas; Yang, Li; Zucman, Gabriel - 2017
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Saving and wealth inequality
De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio - 2017
Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which instruments should they use? Answering these questions requires understanding why people save. Dynamic quantitative models of wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify...
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Complex asset markets
Eisfeldt, Andrea L.; Lustig, Hanno; Zhang, Lei - 2017
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When inequality matters for macro and macro matters for inequality
Ahn, SeHyoun; Kaplan, Greg; Moll, Benjamin; Winberry, Thomas - 2017
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Wealth inequality and externalities from ex ante skill heterogeneity
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2017
This paper develops an incomplete markets model with state dependent (Markovian) stochastic earnings processes and ex ante skill heterogeneity corresponding to being university educated or not. Using the Wealth and Assets Survey for Great Britain, we find that the university educated group has...
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When inequality matters for macro and macro matters for inequality
Ahn, SeHyoun; Kaplan, Greg; Moll, Benjamin; Winberry, Thomas - 2017
We develop an efficient and easy-to-use computational method for solving a wide class of general equilibrium heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks, together with an open source suite of codes that implement our algorithms in an easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard...
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Quantile treatment effects of Riester participation on wealth
Ihle, Dorothee - 2017
In numerous industrialized countries the demographic change erodes the financial basis of traditional pay-as-you-go pension systems. To compensate for decreasing statutory pensions, many governments incentivize private saving by means of subsidized retirement plans. In this context, Germany...
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Income, wealth and equal opportunities in Sweden
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian; André, Christophe; … - 2017
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Financial development, rule of law and wealth inequality : Bayesian model averaging evidence
Horváth, Roman; Horvátová, Eva; Siranova, Maria - 2017
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The wealth of the richest : inequality and the nobility in Sweden, 1750–1900
Bengtsson, Erik; Missiaia, Anna; Olsson, Mats; … - 2017
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Income and wealth inequality in America, 1949-2013
Kuhn, Nikolas Moritz; Schularick, Moritz; Steins, Ulrike I. - 2017
This paper studies the distribution of U.S. household income and wealth over the past seven decades. We introduce a newly compiled household-level dataset based on archival data from historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Complementing recent work on top income and wealth...
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Bestände und Konzentration privater Vermögen in Österreich
Ferschli, Benjamin; Kapeller, Jakob; Schütz, Bernhard; … - 2017
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Income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics : a continuous-time approach
Achdou, Yves; Han, Jiequn; Lasry, Jean-Michel; Lions, … - 2017
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Vermögensunterschiede nach Geschlecht in Österreich und Deutschland : eine Analyse auf der Personenebene
Groiß, Julia; Schneebaum, Alsyssa; Schuster, Barbara - 2017
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Can taxation predict US top-wealth share dynamics?
Böhl, Gregor; Fischer, Thomas - 2017
The level of capital tax gains has high explanatory power regarding the question of what drives economic inequality. On this basis, the authors develop a simple, yet micro-founded portfolio selection model to explain the dynamics of wealth inequality given empirical tax series in the US. The...
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Will wealth become more concentrated in Europe? : evidence from a calibrated neo-Kaleckian model
Ederer, Stefan; Rehm, Miriam - Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien / … - 2017
Diese Studie entwickelt und kalibriert ein analytisches Wachstumsmodell in der neo-Kaleckianischen Tradition. Die Vermögensverteilung ist endogen und ArbeiterInnen und KapitalistInnen erhalten unterschiedliche Renditen. Wir zeigen, dass ArbeiterInnen im langfristigen Gleichgewicht Vermögen...
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Inequality in 3-D : income, consumption, and wealth
Fisher, Jonathan; Johnson, David S.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 2017
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The impact of financial constraints and wealth inequality on international trade flows, capital movements and entrepreneurial migration
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Falvey, Rodney E. - 2014
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The impact of financial constraints and wealth inequality on international trade flows, capital movements and entrepreneurial migration
Bougheas, Spiros P.; Falvey, Rodney E. - 2014
We introduce financial frictions into a simple two sector model of international trade with heterogeneous agents and investigate the impact of differences in the strength of financial institutions and wealth inequality on trade flows, capital movements and entrepreneurial migration. Distinct...
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Fitting parsimonious household-portfolio models to data
Hubar, Sylwia; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian - 2014
US data and new stockholding data from fifteen European countries and China exhibit a common pattern: stockholding shares increase in household income and wealth. Yet, there is a multitude of numbers to match through models. Using a single utility function across households (parsimony), we...
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Progressive taxation as a means to equality of condition and poverty alleviation
Gatzia, Dimitria E.; Woods, Douglas - In: Economics, management and financial markets 9 (2014) 4, pp. 29-43
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ECB asset purchases may affect wealth distribution
Bernoth, Kerstin; König, Philipp; Beckers, Benjamin - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 7, pp. 75-81
In the debate on monetary policy decisions, to date, little attention has been paid to distributional effects. One reason for this is that they are not included in the mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB). Given the loose monetary policy stance in the euro area and the large-scale program...
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EZB-Anleihekäufe können Vermögensverteilung beeinflussen
Bernoth, Kerstin; König, Philipp; Beckers, Benjamin - In: DIW-Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 7, pp. 127-134
Bislang wurden Verteilungswirkungen in der Debatte über geldpolitische Entscheidungen wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Vom Mandat der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) werden sie auch nicht umfasst. Angesichts der lang anhaltenden äußerst lockeren Geldpolitik und des im Januar 2015 gestarteten...
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Estimating the level and distribution of global wealth, 2000-14
Davies, James B.; Lluberas, Rodrigo; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2016
Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the benchmark year. These estimates have been revised and updated since 2010, and the purpose of this paper is to explain the ways in which the estimation methodology has evolved and...
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Restoring rational choice: The challenge of consumer financial regulation
Campbell, John Y. - 2016
This lecture considers the case for consumer financial regulation in an environment where many households lack the knowledge to manage their financial affairs effectively. The lecture argues that financial ignorance is pervasive and unsurprising given the complexity of modern financial products,...
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Uninsured risk, stagnation, and fiscal policy
Braun, R. Anton; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2016
Japan is in the midst of a protracted spell of depressed economic activity. Japan's economic stagnation has occurred against a background of rising earnings risk. Occupational stability is falling as routine occupations disappear and implicit lifetime employment guarantees are gradually...
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth inequality in Japan and the United States
Niimi, Yoko; Horioka, Charles - 2016
To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper examines whether or not individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are more likely to leave bequests to their children than those who do not using data for Japan...
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Inequality of opportunity and beliefs about success and failure
Brock, J. Michelle - 2016
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Inequality and the New Deal
Belabed, Christian A. - 2016
There is a large body of literature analyzing the onset of the Great Depression or the factors influencing economic recovery in the 1930s, especially the New Deal. The role of income inequality before and during the Great Depression, however, has almost never been discussed thoroughly. This...
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Drivers of wealth inequality in euro-area countries : the effect of inheritance and gifts on household gross and net wealth distribution analysed by applying the Shapley value appr...
Leitner, Sebastian - 2016
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The engines of inequality
Franzini, Maurizio; Pianta, Mario - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 51 (2016) 2, pp. 49-55
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Wealth inequality and the Great Recession
Bogliacino, Francesco; Maestri, Virginia - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 51 (2016) 2, pp. 61-66
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EZB-Anleihekäufe können Vermögensverteilung beeinflussen
Bernoth, Kerstin; König, Philipp Johann; Beckers, Benjamin - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 83 (2016) 7, pp. 127-134
Bislang wurden Verteilungswirkungen in der Debatte über geldpolitische Entscheidungen wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Vom Mandat der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) werden sie auch nicht umfasst. Angesichts der lang anhaltenden äußerst lockeren Geldpolitik und des im Januar 2015 gestarteten...
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Inequality, public wealth, and the federal shareholder
Corneo, Giacomo G. - 2016
Current trends in the distribution of wealth trigger a social divide and threaten democracy. I propose to counter this evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital requires two novel institutions: a socially...
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Inheritance and wealth inequality : evidence from population registers
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth inequality (e.g., the Gini coefficient falls by 5–10 percent) but that absolute dispersion...
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Inheritance and wealth inequality : evidence from population registers
Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
We use new population-wide register data on inheritances and wealth in Sweden to estimate the causal impact of inheritances on wealth inequality. We find that inheritances reduce relative wealth inequality (e.g., the Gini coefficient falls by 5-10 percent) but that absolute dispersion increases....
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