Abstract
We revise some of the main ways in which the study of aggregate performance of an economy overlaps with the study of inequality.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Handbook of Income Distribution |
| Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
| Pages | 1229-1302 |
| Number of pages | 74 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Publication series
| Name | Handbook of Income Distribution |
|---|---|
| Volume | 2 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1574-0056 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful for the comments from many people over the years. Many people contributed direct comments about and calculations for this paper. They include the editors for this handbook, but also Makoto Nakajima, Mariacristina De Nardi, Josep Pijoan-Mas, and Thomas Piketty. Others, such as David Wiczer and Moritz Kuhn, made even more direct contributions. We received research assistance from Kai Ding and Gero Dolfus, comments by Sergio Salgado and Annaliina Soikkanen, and editorial help from Joan Gieseke. We thank all of them. Ríos-Rull thanks the National Science Foundation for grant SES-1156228. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.
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Keywords
- Inequality and financial markets
- Inequality dynamics
- Macromodels of inequality
- Political economy of inequality
