全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21924
来源ID	Working Paper 21924
	Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics
	Jess Benhabib; Alberto Bisin
发表日期	2016-01-25
出版年	2016
语种	英语
摘要	Invariably across a cross-section of countries and time periods, wealth distributions are skewed to the right displaying thick upper tails, that is, large and slowly declining top wealth shares. In this survey we categorize the theoretical studies on the distribution of wealth in terms of the underlying economic mechanisms generating skewness and thick tails. Further, we show how these mechanisms can be micro-founded by the consumption-saving decisions of rational agents in specific economic and demographic environments. Finally we map the large empirical work on the wealth distribution to its theoretical underpinnings.
主题	Other ; History of Economic Thought ; Macroeconomics ; Macroeconomic Models ; Consumption and Investment
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21924
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579599
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jess Benhabib,Alberto Bisin. Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics. 2016.