WEALTH INEQUALITY: DATA AND MODELS

Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2008, vol. 12, issue S2, 285-313

Abstract: In the United States wealth is highly concentrated and very unequally distributed: the richest 1% hold one third of the total wealth in the economy. Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models. We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so far.

Date: 2008
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