Wealth inequality: Data and models

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages 285-313

  Cagetti, Marco ^a   De Nardi, Mariacristina ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Life cycle models; Savings

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949124569     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100507070150     Document Type: Article

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