Infrastructure and inequality: Insights from incorporating key economic facts about household heterogeneity

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 864-895

  Klenert, David ^a   Mattauch, Linus ^b   Edenhofer, Ottmar ^a   Lessmann, Kai ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MERCATOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON GLOBAL COMMONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distribution; Heterogeneous Saving; Infrastructure; Public Capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980379204     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100516000432     Document Type: Article

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